Question follow-through · 14405
Nuclear Weapons: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it is government policy to cover overspends from the Defence Nuclear Enterprise budget from the wider Defence budget or from the Treasury reserve.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it is government policy to cover overspends from the Defence Nuclear Enterprise budget from the wider Defence budget or from the Treasury reserve.
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
If an overspend within the Defence Nuclear Enterprise could not be managed within the ringfenced budget, then options to manage this within the wider Defence budget would be considered. This is distinct from the Dreadnought programme for which HM Treasury...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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