Defence: Inflation Index

Sir Menzies Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress his Department has made in establishing a defence-specific inflation index.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
The programme of work is on course and in April 2010, as notified to the HCDC over scrutiny of the 2006-07 annual report and accounts, the MOD will publish estimates of defence inflation for financial years 2006-07 through to 2008-09. For financial year 2009-10 a provisional estimate of defence inflation will be produced in September 2010.