AWE

(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 24 June 2021 to Question 19488 and 6 December 2018 to Question 198373, what his most recent estimate is of the (a) anticipated out-turn cost and (b) projected in-service date of each of the approved and planned projects in the Atomic Weapons Establishment Site Development Context Plan.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 24th February 2022

The currently approved cost and in-service dates for AWE infrastructure projects, are as follows:

Project/Programme

Approved Cost

Approved In-service Date

MENSA

£1996 million

2024

PEGASUS

£634 million

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Project MENSA received a revised approval to its cost and in-service date in February 2022 reflecting, inter alia, the impacts of COVID-19 and amendments to the project to support the future warhead programme.

All outstanding infrastructure related projects at AWE are still subject to internal departmental approval processes and approved outturn cost and in-service dates are not yet available.

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