Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current value of contingency funding is for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme for work related to the development of the PWR3 for the Dreadnought programme.
The development of Pressure Water Reactor 3 (PWR3) is part of the Dreadnought submarine programme, which is costed at £31 billion with a £10 billion contingency.