Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the (a) withdrawal from Afghanistan and (b) environmental clean-up in Afghanistan has cost to date; and how much has been spent on each element of each cost.

The current estimate of the net additional cost of the redeployment of UK armed forces from Afghanistan up until the end of February 2015 was £212 million, including £12 million for the remediation of UK-managed sites across Afghanistan.