The Ministry of Defence has dumped its target date of 2012 for the first of two giant new aircraft carriers to go into service with the Royal Navy.
It emerged last week that the final decision to go ahead with the project - the so-called main gate stage - may not be reached by the end of this year, as planned.
Defence procurement minister Lord Drayson yesterday told MPs that he had no target date for the main gate to be reached.
He said he was unwilling to commit himself to an inservice date until that stage had been passed and contracts signed with the private companies involved in the deal.
It was confirmed that the minister - the millionaire former boss of vaccine company PowderJect and a major Labour donor - had tried to put off yesterday's hearing until after the contracts were signed.
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