§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what has been the overall annual operational, maintenance and refit costs of Polaris for each year since 1975;
(2) what has been the overall annual operational, maintenance and refit costs of the United Kingdom's non-strategic nuclear forces by service departments for each year since 1975.
§ Mr. StanleyIt is not the practice to make available details of year-by-year expenditure on nuclear weapons. Expenditure on the nuclear strategic force for each year since 1975 is as follows:
600W
£ million 1975–1976 58 1976–1977 78 1977–1978 96
£ million 1978–1979 93 1979–1980 126 1980–1981 165 1981–1982 269 1982–1983 327 1983–1984 382 The figures are at the price levels of the original Estimates for the years in Question.