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(asked on 22nd June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to figure 3 of the report from the National Audit Office entitled The Defence Nuclear Enterprise: a landscape review, published on 22 May 2018, HC 1003, if he will publish a breakdown by programme of forecast expenditure for that Enterprise in 2023/24.


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

In collaboration with HM Treasury, the Ministry of Defence is in the process of establishing a definition of the nuclear enterprise for reporting purposes that will encompass the majority of the Ministry of Defence nuclear spend. This spend will form a separate line in the department’s Supply Estimates.

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