{"value":{"id":425657,"askingMemberId":1604,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2015-11-03T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2015-11-05T00:00:00","uin":"14530","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the number of spare parts his Department has for equipment no longer in use; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that spare parts for such equipment are not held in storage.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1542,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2015-11-09T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Since the introduction of the Defence Equipment and Support Inventory Management Strategy (IMS) in 2012 the level of obsolete stock held has substantially reduced; currently, items identified as obsolete represent less than 0.2 per cent of the total value of inventory held by the Ministry of Defence. As at 1 April 2015 the IMS has achieved an overall stock reduction of £8.7 billion against a strategic target of £9.5 billion set for 31 March 2016. We are also working with industry to optimise inventory further and reduce the logistics footprint, while supporting operations and maintaining availability to the Front-line Commands.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Defence Equipment: Spare Parts","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/425657","method":"GET"}]}