Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the additional costs to his departmental budget that will arise across the defence estate in the UK in the financial year 2022-23 as a result of increased prices for gas and electricity compared with the level of those costs in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.

While we do not routinely release forecast figures for the current or future financial years, the impact of rising gas and electricity prices is ongoing and being closely monitored by the department. The costs for gas and electricity for the previous financial years (FY) are as follows: