Trident Submarines
(asked on 18th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department's capital programme prepared for Budget 2016 included revised estimates for the Trident Successor project.
This question was answered on 26th April 2016
As stated in the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, our latest estimate is that manufacturing the four Successor submarines is likely to cost a total of £31 billion, including inflation over the lifetime of the programme. We will also set a contingency of £10 billion. The MOD budget for the Spending Review period published in Budget 2016 included this latest estimate for the relevant period.