To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department expects service costs for the nuclear deterrent to remain at six per cent.
Answered on
27 June 2023
The six percent figure was calculated for the Defence White Paper “The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent” in December 2006.
Due to restructuring of both the Submarine Enterprise and the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, an equivalent comparison is not available.
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Ministry of Defence
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