§ Mr. Benceasked the Minister of Aviation if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of aircraft and missiles cancelled from 1952 to the present date, the amount expended on each item, including cancellation charge, and the date of cancellation.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe list is as follows:
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AIRCRAFT AND MISSILES CANCELLED BEFORE GOING INTO SERVICE SINCE 1952 Estimated Expenditure £m Cancel lotion Date Transport Aircraft Brabazon transport aircraft 6.45 Feb., 1952 Princess flying boat 9.1 1954 Vickers military transport aircraft 4.0 Dec., 1955 Orion turbo-prop. aero engine 4.75 Jan., 1958 Rotodyne helicopter 11.0 Feb., 1962 Operational Aircraft D.H. fighter aircraft 2.5 May, 1952 Developed Hawker Hunter 0.14 July, 1953 Swift fighter aircraft 22.0 Feb., 1955 Swift photo-reconnaissance and fighter aircraft 0.3 June, 1955 Swift crescent-wing research fighter 1.6 Dec., 1955 Avro rocket interceptor aircraft 1.0 Sept., 1955 Thin wing Javelin all-weather fighter aircraft 2.3 June, 1956 Fairey supersonic fighter aircraft 0.15 Mar., 1957 Supersonic bomber (in eluding engine) 2.05 Mar., 1957 Naval Interceptor 3.2 Dec., 1957 Scorpion rocket engine 1.25 Feb., 1959 Spectre rocket engine 5.75 Oct., 1960 P.1154 25.0 Feb., 1965 HS.681 4.0 Feb., 1965 TSR.2 195.0 Apr.,1965
Estimated Expenditure £m. Cancellation Date Missiles Guided bomb with television eye 3.1 June, 1954 Vickers flying bomb 0.7 Sept., 1954 Air-to-ship guided bomb 0.9 Mar., 1956 Air-to-air missile with radar guidance 7.5 June, 1956 Long-range surface-to-air guided weapon 1.5 May, 1957 Heavy anti-tank missile 2.4 Sept., 1959 Blue Steel Mark II 0.825 Dec., 1959 Bloodhound Mark III 0.6 Mar., 1960 Blue Streak ballistic missile 84.0 Apr., 1960 Low-level surface-to-air guided weapon 0.8 Dec., 1961 Medium range surface-to-surface missile 32.1 Aug., 1962 Skybolt air-to-surface ballistic missile 27.0 Dec., 1962 Medium Range Swingfire (Anti-tank missile) 0.234 Nov., 1964 Expenditure figures have been extracted from records extending over a number of years and may not all be on an identical basis. For more recent cancellations, estimates have been given. Both sets of figures should be regarded as approximate.