Global Navigation Satellite Systems

(asked on 2nd March 2020) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated cost of the UK’s new satellite navigation system to replace UK participation in the EU’s Galileo system.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 11th March 2020

The initial estimated engineering cost in 2018 of a UK GNSS was £3 - 5 billion but this would be subject to the findings of the engineering design and development phase (EDDP). The Government continues to look at a number of funding options as part of the EDDP.

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