Well one large procurement programme is definitely going ahead:
Ministry of Defence | Defence News | Equipment and Logistics | Maiden test flight for RAF future aircraft
I happened to be landing in Toulouse that day and saw it bimbling around the circuit.
Does anybody have any more info than is available on the airtanker website about crewing levels? The website says that there will be a mix of RAF and civilian/sponsored-reservists aircrew. I'm interested to know how this will work. If RAF aircrew only fly the aircraft when it is on RAF ops, then the manning rota is going to be inefficient and messy. But if RAF are also required to fly the aircraft when it is on civilian charters, then this presumably means that they will have to be provided with an ATPL.