Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the forecasted Whole Life Costs, including the Total Departmental Expenditure, Capital Departmental Expenditure and Resource Departmental Expenditure, for the Challenger 3 upgrade programme.

We do not routinely release forecast figures regarding the resource and capital expenditure of our major projects. Portfolio data is published annually in support of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) Annual Report which includes a budget baseline and the latest HM Treasury approved estimates in respect of whole life costs.

The current report is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-and-projects-authority-annual-report-2022