RAF Cosford

Mark Pritchard
20. To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the future of RAF Cosford.

Derek Twigg
The aeronautical engineering and communications and information systems training currently delivered at Cosford will relocate to St. Athan as proposed by the Metrix Consortium as part of the defence training review programme. No significant moves, however, are anticipated before 2011. There are currently no plans to close Cosford, and we are exploring a number of proposals for the future defence use of the site.