Defence: Procurement
(asked on 1st October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the value of the exposure of the Ministry of Defence to fluctuations in the value of the US dollar against sterling: and how much of that exposure is hedged externally.
This question was answered on 15th October 2018
At 1 April 2018 the Department expected to use 34 billion US Dollars in the 10 years from 2018-19 and had placed forward contracts for the value of 5.6 billion US Dollars in the three years from 2018-19 using services provided by the Bank of England.