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F-35 Aircraft: Spare Parts

Asked by Rachael MaskellLabour (Co-op)Department for Business and TradeTabled Answered 12 June 2025UIN 56816

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on which countries purchase spare parts from the F35 global spare part pool.

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

Once parts are exported from the UK to the global F-35 programme, the UK does not have access to information about the movement of individual components, and does not have control over whether components in the global spares pool are used for specific customer nations or not.

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