My Lords, to follow up on the question from my noble friend Lady Smith, military procurement has a history of overrunning projects, which people will not back out of because of personal involvement—and there is something in there, too, about jobs. Are we going to have a strategy and justification for saying no to a project, particularly if that means that we are not buying an off-the-shelf replacement which meets a battlefield capacity that we think we might need?
Defence and Security Industrial Strategy
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Addington
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 24 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Defence and Security Industrial Strategy.
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