Trident

(asked on 8th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial contributions the Government has made to the US administration to date to support the D5 Life Extension programme; and what future such payments the Government plans to make.


Answered by
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Guto Bebb
This question was answered on 16th January 2018

The total spend by the UK on the D5 Life Extension Programme up to the end of financial year 2016-17 was £157.6 million.

As stated in the recent update to Parliament on the Dreadnought Programme, approval was given in 2017 to extend the planned life of the Trident II D5 missile electronic packages at a total project cost of around £350 million.

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