§ Mr. Menzies CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much additional expenditure has been incurred by his Department as a direct result of operations in the Gulf(a) between 1 August 1992 and 15 December 1998 and (b) since 16 December 1998, indicating in each time period the percentage of that expenditure relating to (i) personnel, (ii) base expenses, (iii) munitions, (iv) aircraft and fuel, (v) intelligence and (vi) other; and if he will make a statement. [145424]
§ Mr. HoonThe information is not available in the form requested. The table sets out the total additional expenditure incurred by the Ministry of Defence as a direct result of operations in the Gulf from 1992–93 onwards.
Year £ million 1992–93 551 1993–94 179 1994–95 58 1995–96 14 1996–97 6 1997–98 16 1998–99 35 1999–2000 28 2000–011 24 1 Estimate This expenditure relates to residual costs incurred during the Gulf War, the enforcement of the no-fly zone since 1991 and the associated deployments of naval, air and ground forces in support of our policy of containing Iraq. These figures do not include routine naval deployments to the Gulf.