§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the Royal Air Force Board of Inquiry found was the cause of each of the aircraft crashes(a) 13 April 1989—Jaguar, (b) 13 November 1990—Jaguar, (c) 18 March 1991—Canberra, (d) 27 May 1993—Hercules, (e) 26 August 1993—Chipmunk, (f) 1 September 1994—Tornado and (g) 1 June 1995—Harrier; if black boxes were fitted; and in each case if higher authority concluded that negligence had occurred. [38984]
§ Mr. SpellarDetails of the accidents mentioned are contained in the appropriate Military Aircraft Accident Summaries, copies of which are kept in the Library of the House. A brief summary of the cases is as follows:
developing improved strategies to reduce the number of outbreaks. The Ministry's research programmes generally operate on a rolling three-year cycle, so for most of the programmes the Document covers only approximately one third of the total research effort. For bovine tuberculosis, however, the whole programme has been reviewed in the light of the recommendations in the Krebs Report. The new TB programme picks up the individual recommendations the Report makes for research and lays the foundation for developing soundly based control strategies in the future, including in the longer term the development of a cattle vaccine.
The Document also makes a significant movement in the direction of allocating research contracts by open competition, which will help to ensure that work is undertaken by those best qualified to do it. This also responds to another of the Krebs recommendations, and must be right if we are to achieve value for money in this area.