Recommendation 24

The Department told us that it had consulted the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and HM Treasury about its plan for restoring effective governance to the programme. It said it needed to resolve the current technical issues and gain approval for any changes to the schedule and definitions of capability, including agreeing any revisions to programme milestones with General Dynamics.51 However, the Department would not complete this process until it had determined how to resolve the noise and vibration issues, and so could not tell us when it would decide on the programme’s future.52 Achieving the full Ajax capability