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Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 10 July, Official Report, column 184, how much of the remaining expenditure on the Trident programme will be spent in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) the United States of America. [37426]
Mr. Arbuthnot
The estimated £1.61 billion of remaining expenditure on the Trident acquisition programme is planned to be spent as follows:
| £ million | ||
| UK | USA | |
| Submarine | 475 | 12 |
| Strategic weapons system | 21 | 495 |
| Tactical weapons system1 | 68 | 1 |
| Building works | 11 | — |
| Dockyards | 266 | — |
| Warhead/miscellaneous: | ||
| Unallocated contingency1 | 206 | 55 |
| Total | 1,047 | 563 |
| 1 The apparent variation from the answer given to the hon. Member on 10 July 1996, Official Report, column 184, results from rounding of figures. | ||