Merchant Shipping: Finance

(asked on 8th May 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the UK Hydrographic Office's annual budget was spent on chartering commercial ships in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
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Al Carns
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
This question was answered on 13th May 2025

Year

Cost (£)

Proportion of UK Hydographic Office budget spent on chartering commercial ships (%)

2015-16

25717

0.04

2016-17

34839

0.05

2017-18

44117

0.08

2018-19

0

0

2019-20

0

0

2021-22

0

0

2022-23

52104

0.07

2023-24

0

0

2024-25

0

0

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