Nuclear Submarines

(asked on 22nd June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department expects service costs for the nuclear deterrent to remain at six per cent.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
This question was answered on 27th June 2023

The six percent figure was calculated for the Defence White Paper “The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent” in December 2006.

Due to restructuring of both the Submarine Enterprise and the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, an equivalent comparison is not available.

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