Defence: Expenditure

(asked on 26th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department allocated to (a) submarines, (b) combat air, (c) air support, (d) ships, (e) helicopters, (f) land equipment, (g) weapons and (h) intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance in 2016-17.


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Guto Bebb
This question was answered on 3rd April 2018

A breakdown of the budgets issued to the eight main Defence Equipment and Support Operating Centres in financial year 2016-17 is shown below.

Operating Centre

2016-17 (£millions)

Submarines

3,796

Combat Air

2,229

Air Support

1,374

Ships

2,008

Helicopters

917

Land Equipment

1,116

Weapons

1,262

ISTAR

416

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