Speeches

Lord Jones – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jones on 2016-10-18.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the agreement by the partner countries of the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey to lend Airbus Military €1.5 billion to support production of the A400M aircraft, how many of those aircraft (1) have been purchased by, and (2) are on order from, each of those partner countries.

Earl Howe

The six A400M partner nations have agreed to procure 170 aircraft from Airbus Defence & Space. Aircraft deliveries commenced in 2013 and are expected to continue into the next decade. Please see below the number of aircraft delivered, and the number ordered but yet to be delivered, as at 21 October 2016.

Partner nation

Aircraft delivered

Total ordered aircraft

Belgium

0

8 (including 1 aircraft for Luxembourg)

France

10

50

Germany

5

53

Spain

0

27

Turkey

3

10

United Kingdom

11

22