AUKUS
(asked on 13th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the £3 billion of funding to support the AUKUS pact announced by the Prime Minister on 13 March 2023 will be drawn from (a) the Dreadnought contingency fund or (b) HM Treasury reserves.
This question was answered on 16th March 2023
The £3 billion announced by the Prime Minister represents new additional funding to support investment across the defence nuclear enterprise and will form part of the Defence core budget.