From the Commons debate yesterday:
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From yesterdays Commons debate:
The MOD, having carefully considered all those issues, has declared that all reasonably practicable measures have been taken to reduce to ALARP the risk to the Nimrod aircraft. It is the view of all those involved in the equipment safety and environmental working group, which includes QinetiQ, BAE Systems, the RAF and the IPT, that the Nimrod is tolerably safe and ALARP, and is therefore safe to fly. No member of the group demurs from that view.
Well here's the problem Mr Ainsworth, that was not the view expressed by all of those stakeholders at the recent Coroners Inquest. In fact Grp Cptn Hickman (IPT) stated on oath that the fleet would not be ALARP until the end of 2008. This leaves us with a number of questions:
1. Has a miracle happened in the intervening period and the fleet has reached ALARP earlier than Hickmans' evidence suggested, if so great but where's the evidence?
2. Or does Hickman not know his ALARP from his SCP elbow?