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Written question asked by Ashok Kumar (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 12 June 2006. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Wednesday, 14 June 2006 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.


New Technologies (Research)

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of the Department's budget was spent researching new technologies in the last period for which figures are available.
Answer

The overall spend on research in relation to overall defence spending is available in the UK Defence Statistics 2005 publication. Table 1.1 ‘Defence Expenditure/Budget 2003-04’ of the publication displays the net Defence budget as some £31 billion. Table 1.7 ‘MOD Research and Development Expenditure 2003-04’ records the net budget spent on research as £574 million.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
447 c1233W; 76808
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Defence equipment Ministry of Defence Technology Research
Link
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