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Defence: Procurement

Volume 488: debated on Tuesday 3 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the estimated cost of the Support Vehicle programme was on 31 March (a) 2002, (b) 2003, (c) 2004, (d) 2005, (e) 2006, (f) 2007 and (g) 2008, broken down by (i) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (ii) indirect resource DEL and (iii) capital DEL. (257776)

The information requested is shown in the following table. The figures include the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture phases. There are no records of support vehicle project costs prior to 2003.

£ million

As at 31 March each year

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Direct Resource DEL

n/a

4

9

12

6

5

4

Indirect Resource DEL

n/a

0

0

0

0

0

0

Capital DEL

n/a

1392

1378

1350

1332

1258

1268

Total

n/a

1396

1387

1362

1338

1263

1272