Unmanned Air Vehicles: Expenditure
(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on remotely-piloted air systems in each financial year since 2019-20.
The DE&S Remote Piloted Air Systems (RPAS) delivery team total spend on equipment by financial year is as follows:
FY | Total spend |
2019-20 | 222.376 |
2020-21 | 235.916 |
2021-22 | 395.316 |
2022-23 | 401.739 |
The RPAS total spend on operating costs by financial year is as follows:
FY | Total spend |
2019-20 | 15.495 |
2020-21 | 16.219 |
2021-22 | 18.434 |
2022-23 | 16.768 |
The RPAS is a specific project team in DE&S and the figures above represent the total spend of that team. The figure does not represent the total spend on all remote piloted air system projects across Defence which would not be held centrally and would not be answerable without a disproportionate cost.