Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the titles of the budget categories in the £600 million of contingency fund allocated to the Dreadnought programme are for the current financial year.
Her Majesty's Treasury has allowed the Ministry of Defence to access up to £600 million of funds from the £10 billion contingency allocated to the Dreadnought submarine programme in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review. The funds are for capital expenditure in the current financial year.