Trident Submarines: Procurement
(asked on 8th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) original and (b) current cost expectations for the Dreadnought programme.
This question was answered on 22nd September 2022
The 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review estimated that the Dreadnought programme is likely to cost a total of £31 billion (including inflation, over the lifetime of the programme) and set a contingency of £10 billion. The programme remains within its overall budget and on track for first of Class, HMS Dreadnought to enter service in the early 2030s.