Defence: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the estimated cost of the Typhoon Future Capability programme was on 31 March (a) 2007 and (b) 2008, broken down by (i) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (ii) indirect resource DEL and (iii) capital DEL. (257779)

The information is shown in the following table, which includes the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture phases.

£*million*
	31 March 2007	31 March 2008
Direct Resource DEL	13	18
Indirect Resource DEL	39	34
Capital DEL	436	428
Total	488	480

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009