Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the funding allocated by Government Research & Development investment to each programme in each of the last five financial years.
Ministry of Defence Research and Development expenditure from 2007-19 is available from the Office for National Statistics Dataset for Research and development expenditure by the UK Government.
The report can be found using the following link:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure/datasets/scienceengineeringandtechnologystatisticsreferencetables
The figures are contained in the table below:
MOD Research and Development Expenditure 2007-19
Total Net Expenditure (£ million) at current Prices | |||
Year | Research | Development | Total |
2007-08 | 635 | 1,505 | 2,139 |
2008-09 | 584 | 1,406 | 1,991 |
2009-10 | 575 | 1,177 | 1,752 |
2010-11 | 534 | 1,159 | 1,693 |
2011-12 | 553 | 753 | 1,306 |
2012-13 | 565 | 895 | 1,460 |
2013-14 | 586 | 931 | 1,516 |
2014-15 | 616 | 1,088 | 1,704 |
2015-16 | 604 | 1,032 | 1,636 |
2016-17 | 605 | 1,018 | 1,623 |
2017-18 | 553 | 1,081 | 1,634 |
2018-19 | 546 | 1,101 | 1,647 |
Note: R&D expenditure meets the Frascati international definition of R&D.
Research and Development expenditure often covers multiple programme areas and therefore MOD cannot breakdown expenditure at programme level.