Projects

Mr. Harper
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost has been of (a) Project SLAM and (b) Project Allenby/Connaught in each year of the contract.

Derek Twigg
[holding answer 16 January 2007]: Expenditure on Phase 1 of the Single Living Accommodation Modernisation Project (Project SLAM) over the period of the contract is set out in the following table. In addition to providing details of expenditure approved as part of the original SLAM programme the table also sets out expenditure in support of projects separately funded by the services but delivered through Project SLAM.

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|           |SLAM programme|Separately funded|Total|
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|2002-03    |1.0           |—                |1.0  |
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|2003-04    |67.7          |—                |67.7 |
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|2004-05    |116.9         |4.0              |120.9|
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|2005-06    |108.3         |42.7             |151.0|
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|2006-071   |87.3          |44.2             |131.5|
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|1 Forecast.|              |                 |     |
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Further funding of around £100 million (excluding projects separately funded by the services) has been allocated to SLAM in FY 2007-08 for completion of the Phase 1 programme. Phase 2 of SLAM has been approved with funding of £335 million over the five years 2008-09 to 2012-13 for the delivery of up to a further 3,800 bed spaces.

The contract for Project Allenby/Connaught was awarded in March 2006 and the forecast of expenditure from contract comment to 31 March 2007 is £83.2 million.