Shipping: Costs
(asked on 12th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on boats in each financial year since 2019.
The information requested for each Defence Equipment & Support team is provided in the table below.
Financial Year | Naval Ships Support £million | Maritime Combat Systems £million | Maritime Systems Support £million | Boats £million | Salvage and Marine Operations £million |
2018-19 | £573.5 | £300.9 | £201.3 | £52.8 | £3.7 |
2019-20 | £546 | £328.5 | £205.4 | £38.2 | £9 |
2020-21 | £617 | £316.6 | £201.6 | £50.9 | £11.7 |
2021-22 | £619.6 | £294.3 | £183.8 | £91.2 | £31.5 |
2022-23 | £734.8 | £300.4 | £192.9 | £83.6 | £48.1 |
2023-24 | £609.4 | £320 | £152.8 | £71.4 | £25.8 |
Figures for financial year 2023-24 are to date.
The Future Maritime Platforms team forms part of the wider Ship Acquisition Directorate and has no separately identified budget.
Separately identifiable operating costs are no longer available for either the Boats team or the Salvage and Marine Operations team in financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20. The information presented in the table for these teams in those years consists of Equipment Plan expenditure only.