PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nuclear Weapons: Costs (24 June 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of building a new replacement warhead.
Asked by:
Jeremy Corbyn (Your Party)
Asked by:
Jeremy Corbyn (Your Party)
Answer
As the replacement warhead is in its early preliminary phases it is too early at this stage to provide a cost estimate. I am however able to provide information relating to completed financial years. The Ministry of Defence spent £116 million up to the end of the financial year (2018-19). A total of £98 million was spent on the Replacement Warhead readiness phase over the subsequent two financial years (2019-20 and 2020-21).
Answered by:
Sir Jeremy Quin (Conservative)
30 June 2021
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