{"value":{"id":1826041,"askingMemberId":5089,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-07-22T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-09-01T00:00:00","uin":"70033","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the full scope is of Project Mercury.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":483,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-09-01T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>These projects are not formal projects within a broader programme. It is activity conducted by the Field Army that codifies ‘bottom-up’ efforts to improve how a modernised armoured battlegroup fights, through experimentation and innovation.</p><p> </p><p>Any outputs will inform adjustments to the design of the future Army and how it trains, what equipment it uses and how, optimised structures, and better threat analysis.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Defence","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1826041","method":"GET"}]}