Defence Equipment: Costs

(asked on 2nd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has put in place plans to reduce the £6 billion affordability gap over the next five years of defence equipment spending; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 10th March 2020

The Secretary of State is taking steps to manage the financial pressures in Ministry of Defence's plans. We have subsequently reduced the shortfall in the years from 2020-21 by securing £2.2 billion extra spending for defence in the 2019 Spending Round and driving progress in our ambitious Transformation programme. We recognise that resolving the longer-term financial challenge in the Equipment Plan will be for the spending review later this year.

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