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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence under which budget headings the projected expenditure on (a) the Trident programme, (b) Nuclear Warhead Stability Review, (c) nuclear waste disposal, (d) nuclear site security and (e) remediation of radioactively contaminated land and buildings on defence nuclear sites, as listed in tables 1 to 6 of CM 5412, Ministry of Defence Expenditure Plans 2002-04, published on 9 July, will be placed. [73569] Mr. Adam Ingram: Projected expenditure on items (a)-(e) falls under ``Provision of Defence Capability'' for the Ministry of Defence Resource Budget (of which part is counted against the MOD's Departmental Expenditure Limit and part against non-cash items in Annually Managed Expenditure). Projected expenditure on items (a), (c), (d) and (e) also falls under ``Provision of Defence Capability'' for the MOD Capital Budget. The majority of this projected expenditure (both Resource and Capital) falls within three of our Top Level Budgets; Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Chief of Defence Logistics and Defence Procurement Agency. However additional projected Resource expenditure also falls within Land Command, RAF Strike Command and the Central Top Level Budget for item (d). A wide range of assets is also employed in support of these activities, covering most of the categories in Table 4.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

390 c548W;390 c549-50W; 73569

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Construction Contamination Land Expenditure Nuclear weapons Radioactive waste Security Waste disposal Trident

Link

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