HC Deb 21 July 1998 vol 316 c475W
Mr. Key

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much money the United Kingdom has spent on the TRACER project to date. [51061]

Mr. Spellar

Expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on the Tactical Reconnaissance Armoured Combat Equipment Requirement, TRACER, programme currently amounts to £7.3 million at 1998–99 prices. This does not include the cost of government research into systems which may come to be incorporated in the design of the vehicle, nor any costs incurred by the private sector.