Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual budget for the National Shipbuilding Office is in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23, (c) 2023-24, (d) 2024-25; and how those budgets are broken down by department from which that funding is drawn.
The annual budget for the National Shipbuilding Office (NSO) broken down by financial year (FY) and Department is set out below:
Government Departments | FY2021-221 | FY2022-23 | FY2023-24 | FY2024-25 |
Ministry of Defence | £889,680 | £1,544.63 | £1,430,147 | £1555,013 |
Cabinet Office | £123,926 | £315153 | £292,229 | £317,338 |
Department for Business & Trade2,3 | £158,128 | £350,819 | £326,925 | £353,083 |
Department for Transport | £104,374 | £218,771 | £202,673 | £220,322 |
Department for Education | £47,511 | £99,693 | £92,577 | £100,385 |
Total | £1,326,059 | £2,534,175 | £2,349,731 | £2,552,964 |
1 Part year
2 Previously split between Dept for Business, Energy & Trade and Dept for International Trade
3 Does not include capitation rate for one civil servant (circa £100,000)
Funding by Departments is on the basis of their contribution to the delivery of the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh and resourcing of the NSO.