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Written question asked by Geraint Davies (Labour) on Monday, 13 July 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 15 July 2020. It was answered by Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 July 2020 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.


Hartley Anderson: Finance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department (a) has supplied to the Hartley Anderson Group in the last year and (b) will supply to that group in the coming year for the investigation of deflagration as a method of unexploded ordnance disposal.

Answer

The Department’s contractor for provision of project management for the maintenance of Strategic Environmental Assessments, Hartley Anderson Ltd, commissioned the National Physical Laboratory for this project. Funding for financial year 2019-2020 totalled £221,000 (excl. VAT), which includes third party costs for munition manufacture and experimental site hire.

The funding allocated to this project to date in financial year 2020-2021 is £7,500 (excl. VAT).


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
72760
Session
2019-21
Subjects
Bomb disposal Finance Research Hartley Anderson
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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