Queen's Flight

HC Deb 15 July 1992 vol 211 cc816-7W

Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the annual cost of maintaining the Queen's flight for each of the last 10 years; and from which subheads of which votes these costs are taken.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The annual cost of maintaining the Queen's flight is as follows:

	£ million at outturn prices
1983–84	4.763
1984–85	4.770
1985–86	4.776
1986–87	4.752
1987–88	5.507
1988–89	5.952
1989–90	6.229
1990–91	6.745
1991–92	6.863
1992–931	7.316
1 Estimate.

Expenditure falls mainly to subheads 1C, 1D, 1E, 1H and 2M.