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Departmental Finance

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will break down his Department's RfR1 near cash resource expenditure by (a) value and (b) standard industrial classification for each financial year since 2001-02; (176293)

(2) if he will break down his Department's RfR1 capital expenditure by (a) value and (b) standard industrial classification for each financial year since 2001-02.

Estimates of aggregate MOD cash expenditure in UK industry and commerce, by standard industrial classification (SIC), are published in the annual United Kingdom Defence Statistics, copies of which are available in the Library of the House. This analysis, however, is not fully compatible with the Treasury RfR framework, as it measures only cash expenditure and excludes non-cash costs such as depreciation; it includes both capital and resource expenditure; and it does not cover expenditure overseas incurred by the Department. It is likely also to include expenditure which may be claimed under RfR2 (Conflict Prevention). Identification of RfRl near cash expenditure by SIC could be provided only at disproportionate cost.