HC Deb 15 July 1996 vol 281 c360W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list his Department's 25 most expensive current procurement projects; what was the original estimated cost of each of these projects at today's prices; what is the current estimated final cost of each of the projects; and if he will list the delays in the in-service dates of these projects. [33999]

Mr. Arbuthnot

Pursuant to my answer of 27 June 1996,Official Report, columns 247–48, I regret to say that the most recent major project report—MPR95—has not been placed in the Library of the House owing to the confidential classification of the document. An unclassified version is being prepared and will be placed in the Library of the House. The projects covered by the report are:

  1. 1. Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile AMRAAM
  2. 2. Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile ASRAAM
  3. 3. Bowman radio system
  4. 4. Bridging for the 90s—BR90
  5. 5. Challenger 2
  6. 6. Common New Generation Frigate—GNGF
  7. 7. COBRA
  8. 8. EH101 Merlin
  9. 9. Eurofighter
  10. 10. Hercules C-130J
  11. 11. Infra Red Counter Measures —IRCM
  12. 12. Landing Platform Dock (Replacement)—LPD (R)
  13. 13. Landing Platform (Helicopter)—LP(H)
  14. 14. Rapier—Field Standard C
  15. 15. Sea Harrier attrition buy
  16. 16. SKYNET 4 Phase 2
  17. 17. SKYNET 5
  18. 18. Spearfish Torpedoes
  19. 19. Swiftsure and Trafalgar class submarines—update
  20. 20. Tornado GR1 Mid Life Update
  21. 21. Trafalgar Class Submarines—Batch 2
  22. 22. Trident
  23. 23. Tracked utility vehicles—TUL/TUM/TUM(HD)
  24. 24. Medium range TRIGAT
  25. 25. Vertical Launch Seawolf.