Ammunition: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July to Question 12213 on Ammunition: Finance, how much in each year referred to is new money allocated from the Defence Investment Plan.
Answered by Luke Pollard
The Defence Investment Plan (DIP) provided a unique opportunity to reset the entire defence programme to deliver the recommendations within the Strategic Defence Review. It is not possible to make a like-for-like comparison against previous planning assumptions due to an ever-evolving global munitions environment. We are therefore unable to attribute changes against a previously established baseline.
However, our projected spend on weapons and munitions outlined in the Defence Investment plan totals £11.1 billion and is broken down by financial year (FY) as follows:
| FY2026-27 | FY2027-28 | FY2028-29 | FY2029-30 |
Total DIP Munitions spend | £2.22 billion | £2.62 billion | £3.15 billion | £3.11 billion |
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