Topical question asked in the House of Commons, by Lord Walney (Labour). It was answered on Monday, 13 September 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
Topical Questions
- Question
- When the Secretary of State was in opposition, he repeatedly and convincingly made the case that delays to projects ended up costing the UK taxpayer more and put at risk our prized skills base. Will he rule out any such delay in the Trident successor programme or anything else in the strategic defence review?
- Answer
-
I would love to be able to give just such an assurance, but as I pointed out earlier, with a defence budget of £35 billion or so a year, we inherited an overspent equipment programme of £38 billion. The Opposition may not regard that as a priority, but dealing with it is a priority for the coalition Government if we are to put our armed forces and our defence industry on a sound, stable and predictable footing for the future.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 515 c598
- Session
- 2010-12
- Oral question type
- Supplementary
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Trident Armed forces Cadets
- Link
- View this Topical question on www.publications.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2014-09-01 20:24:05 +0100
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1543505/-question
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1543505/-question
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1543505/-question