Defence Equipment & Support: Expenditure
(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on (a) fires, (b) infrastructure and (c) manoeuvre support in the Land Equipment directorate at Defence Equipment and Support in each financial year since 2019-20.
The Fires, Infrastructure, and Manoeuvre Support (FIMS) delivery team total spend on equipment and support by financial year is as follows:
Financial Year | Contract Spend £million |
2019-20 | 24.82 |
2020-21 | 56.66 |
2021-22 | 64.11 |
2022-23 | 390.42 |
The FIMS delivery team total spend on operating costs by financial year is as follows:
Financial year | Total spend £million |
2019-20 | 8.10 |
2020-21 | 2.20 |
2021-22 | 8.26 |
2022-23 | 17.86 |
FIMS is a specific project team in DE&S and the figures above represent the total spend of that team. The figures do not represent the total spend on all fires, infrastructure and support across the Department which would not be held centrally and would not be answerable without a disproportionate cost. The substantial increase in costs in FY2022-23 is due to the Operational Infrastructure team being merged into the FIMS team in April 2022.