Speeches by Williams.

“That is not the breach that we have notified.”

“Yes, but, on the other hand, against an out-of-service date of 2069, we are looking at a defence investment plan that will look five to 10 years out. We have a spending review settlement for the rest of this Parliament. The degree of precision that you need in a 40-year costing is particularly interesting when you are …”

“The judgment that was made by Ministers, clearly with advice from officials, was around balancing the risk to life and supporting the injunction by limiting those in the circle of knowledge to those who had an absolute need to know. The judgment of Ministers was to read in the Speaker and his Lords equivalent. As you w…”

“We had whole-life costs for the fleet that we have already committed to and a set of planning assumptions that are still to be tested, through the defence investment plan and subsequent reviews, about what the full fleet mix will look like and about the relationship between F-35 and the rest of our combat air programme…”

“Yes.”

“That is a different question. There are a range of decisions that we have made around the first 48 aircraft and the expansion to a fleet of 74, and we have good cost information for that. The extrapolation to the whole-life costs of a fleet of 138 may be an interesting calculation as we come to decisions about the next…”

“It has not gone over budget. It is currently under budget for the 48 aircraft. The modest delay in achieving full operational capability is, in part, linked to a shift to two frontline squadrons rather than one. Against its original approvals, this programme is doing really quite well.”

“Yes.”

“Let me give you a response on a general level, and then I might again look to my colleagues in light blue on the specifics at Marham. The Department and the Government definitely recognise the importance of provision of good-quality accommodation as part of the offer to service personnel and their families, whether tha…”

“No, not especially. What we were looking for was an injunction to allow us to understand which individuals within that data breach were at highest risk, what that risk was, and what we could do about it to mitigate the risk of that breach. One of the unusual features of this—with the benefit of hindsight, maybe we coul…”

“I am happy to share some of the assumptions behind that either in open session or, if it is confidential, by making the necessary arrangements.”

“Let me start, but I may want to hand over to either the SRO or the CDS. In terms of preparedness, as you would expect, there is quite a wide range of engagement happening with our US partners and NATO, both as an organisation and those NATO partners that are already part of the DCA mission. There are a range of factors…”

“It was the court that offered a super-injunction.”

“Interestingly, although I was chair of the investment approvals committee in 2013, I do not have that number to hand. The SRO might. The one that I would look for would be 2016 review note 4.”

“On the first of those questions, the two-eyes thing is specifically a procedural control around the use of the “to” field or the “bcc” field. We have system controls in place. The shift to a new system that is more appropriate for management of personal data of this sort means that we are not using embedded data in thi…”

“I recognise it as a historic characterisation of the way in which some projects have entered our programme. It is not particularly the case for F-35 and it is not particularly the way that we do business any more. It is in the interests of frontline commands and SROs to get a swept-up capability that delivers what it n…”

“We applied for an injunction.”

“As a matter of routine, if we are considering the deferral of equipment programmes in our planning round, we would identify what we expect the downstream—usually higher—costs to be to deliver that programme in a longer timeframe. We routinely identify that as part of our planning round. Some of that will be captured in…”

“We had policies in place for that before the breach. Clearly, they were not being followed. We have tightened the systems protection since the breach.”

“We could give you a note on the cost saving in the early years versus the overall cost of the programme. My recollection from the decisions of 2010 that the Chief of Defence Staff has referenced is that we were previously buying quite early in the Lerner curve. The early decision to delay got us to a cost per airframe …”