Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 28 March 2018, whether the £600 million for the Dreadnought program has been allocated from the centrally held £0.8 billion contingency for nuclear projects.

The Ministry of Defence will benefit from an extra £800 million in the next financial year, myself and the Chancellor have confirmed.

This includes access to £600 million from the Dreadnought contingency, announced in 2015, and will ensure that the UK's new world-class nuclear submarines are delivered on time and within the £31 billion budget agreed at the Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2015.

In addition £200 million was agreed at the Supplementary Estimates earlier in the year.