Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the costs incurred to date of developing a UK satellite system similar to the European Galileo system; and if he will make a statement.

The purpose of any project engineering, design and development process is to research and understand what would best suit the UK’s requirements. We are taking the appropriate time to investigate the requirements, design specifications and costs as fully as possible.

The UK GNSS programme incurred costs of approximately £45.5m up to March 31^st 2020.

For the period 1 April 2020 to 30 September 2020 the GNSS Programme is managing costs within its budget allocation of approximately £18.7m.