Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the total expenditure on his Department's digital transformation programme.

As stated in Footnote 14 of the National Audit Office’s report entitled ‘The Digital Strategy for Defence: A review of early implementation’, Defence will spend £1.360 billion on digital transformation in the period financial years 2022-23 to 2031-32.