Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has allocated to the development of DragonFire in each of the financial years (i) 2026-27, (ii) 2027-28, (iii) 2028-29 and (iv) 2029-30.

Following the publication of the Defence Investment Plan, the Ministry of Defence has allocated £490 million for the development of Directed Energy Weapons, including the DragonFire programme, across the period up to and including financial year 2029-30. Funding is managed across the programme as a whole, and the year-by-year spend on DragonFire will be balanced within the available budget against other directed energy projects.