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Red Arrows: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the defence budget was allocated to the Red Arrows in the 2024-25 financial year.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
13 Feb 2025
Answer
19 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the defence budget was allocated to the Red Arrows in the 2024-25 financial year.

  2. 13 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The exact annual operating budget for the Red Arrows and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is not centrally calculated. However, the operation of both teams combined would account for less than 00.03% of the annual defence budget.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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