questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the US Government Accountability Office’s report entitled F-35 Sustainment: Actions Needed to Ensure Updated Strategy Improves Persistent Readiness Challenges, published on 11 June 2026, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the analysis that shows the mission capable rate for the US F-35 fleet declined from 67 percent to 44 percent from fiscal year 2021 to 2025 in direct comparison to the mission capable rate of the UK Lightning Force.
answerText: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Questions 11056 and 11058 on 23 June 2026.
heading: F-35 Aircraft: Finance