PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
Dec 08. Defence Committee. Publication of the Defence Committee’s First Report of Session 2008-09: Winter Supplementary Estimates 2008-09
The Defence Committee will be publishing its First Report of Session 2008–09, Winter Supplementary Estimates 2008-09, HC 52, on Monday 15 December at 11.00 am. No embargoes.
Dec 08. Third Evidence Session (originally tabled for last Tuesday). Defence Equipment, Tuesday 16 December 2008 at 10.30 am in Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster (room subject to change), oral evidence will be taken from:
Ministry of Defence
o Quentin Davies MP, Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Equipment and Support
o General Sir Kevin O’Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel
o Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability)
o Mr Amyas Morse, Defence Commercial Director, Ministry of Defence
House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 09 December 2008
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armoured or
protected Land Rovers of each type were deployed to Iraq prior to October 2003;
and when they were deployed. [241279]
Mr. Hutton: No armoured or protected Land Rovers were deployed in Iraq prior to
October 2003. 208 Snatch Mk1 protected vehicles were deployed to Iraq in
November 2003.
House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 08 December 2008
Tornado Aircraft
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the
statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 19
November 2008, Official Report, columns 94-5WH, on RAF operations, whether the
Tornado aircraft due to be deployed to Afghanistan on Operation Herrick from 1
April 2009 will be fitted with the Raptor imaging system from the start of their
deployment. [241200]
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the
statement of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 95WH, on RAF operations,
whether the Tornado aircraft due to be deployed to Afghanistan on Operation
Herrick from 1 April 2009 will be fitted with the Raptor imaging system from the
start of their deployment. [240736]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Tornado GR4 will have the capability to carry the Raptor
Reconnaissance Pod from the start of their deployment; however there has not yet
been any decision to deploy this capability. An Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance capability will be provided by GR4 with an alternative system in
the first instance, which delivers the ISR effects required in the Operation
Herrick theatre, while providing an optimum balance between weapons and ISTAR
payloads.