PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS FROM PS2 THE LEADING U.K. GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMPANY
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his announcement in Le Touquet, how his plan for France and the United Kingdom to have one aircraft carrier permanently available will work in practice.
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the UK’s military projects involving Anglo-French collaboration since 1980, and set out their current status.
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Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 859W, on human centrifuge, if he will name the company, other than AMST, which is bidding for the High G RAF human centrifuge project.
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Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether industrial co-operation between France and the United Kingdom on the CVF project will have an impact on his Department’s contractual arrangements with (a) BAE Systems and (b) Thales UK.
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Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it will be possible to adapt either of the two new aircraft carriers so as to make them interoperable with the Rafale aircraft.
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Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the proposed Anglo-French co-operation on the CVF aircraft carrier project.
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Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the firms bidding for the CVF project are estimated to have spent on their participation in the competition.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the Technology Readiness Assessment of each of the candidate unmanned air vehicles for Watchkeeper; with which allied armed forces each of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper will be interoperable; which weapons are cleared for use from each of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper; how many of these have been used in combat; and if he will list the countries of origin of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to award a contract for the Wheeled Support Vehicles programme; and what delays there have been to the originally forecast in-service date.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the results of the Ministry of Defence’s Stockpile Planning Guidance study.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if all the RAF’s Tornado GR4s are capable of supporting Operation Southern Watch duties; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many SA80 L86A2 weapons will be withdrawn from operational service following the introduction into service of the new light machine gun; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what Royal Navy vessels have been visited by Chilean Government officials or Chilean armed forces personnel in the past year.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on delays to the MRAV programme; and for what reasons he plans to procure fewer vehicles than was originally envisaged.
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Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to award a contract for the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme; and what delays there have been t