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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will take steps to ensure that any entity acquiring defence procurement contracts pay corporation tax in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will take steps to ensure that any entity acquiring defence procurement contracts pay corporation tax in the UK.
We would expect any entity acquiring or being awarded defence procurement contracts to pay corporation tax, where applicable, in line with current regulations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been allocated for research and development funding in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been allocated for research and development funding in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
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There is no fixed forward budget for research and development.
The Department's plans for funding research through the centralised Ministry of Defence Science and Technology Programme, under the Department's chief scientific adviser, are £410 million for 2013-14 and £435 million for 2014-15, rounded to the nearest £5 million, which meets our intention to sustain science and technology investment at a minimum of 1.2% of the Defence budget. Development expenditure is applied according to the requirements of individual projects (mostly as part of the equipment programme) and the plans for funding of the development elements of these projects are not centralised.
That this House notes the findings of the National Security Strategy that a nuclear weapon threat from another state is of low likelihood; further notes a procurement cost of £25 billion and an estimated lifetime cost of over £100 billion for the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapon system; believes that there are greater spending priorities both at the Ministry of Defence and across other departments; and urges the Government to cancel plans to replace Trident.
That this House notes the findings of the National Security Strategy that a nuclear weapon threat from another state is of low likelihood; further notes a procurement cost of £25 billion and an estimated lifetime cost of over £100 billion for the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapon system; believes...