Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the flying hours' cost of the Atlas aircraft operating in the English Channel has been for the last two months.

The A400M has flown a single mission over the Channel in support of the Border Force on 10 August. The individual cost of this sortie has not been captured as a pre-programmed training sortie was utilised to complete this task, the costs of which are covered within Air Command's Annual Budget total and there were therefore no additional costs to Defence.