Asked by: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of forward purchase contracts with the Bank of England for the financial years (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18 is; and what proportion of his Department's expenditure in each of those years those figures represent.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
The answer can be found on page 148 of the Ministry of Defence's 2015-16 Annual Report and Accounts which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558559/MoD_AR16.pdf