§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much the UK Government has spent per year since 1991 on ballistic missile defence research; and how much of each year's expenditure was on pre-feasibility programmes. [121793]
§ Mr. Hoon[holding answer 15 May 2000]: The cost of the Pre-feasibility Programme, undertaken in 1994–96, was approximately £4.5 million. The Technology Readiness and Risk Assessment Programme (TRRAP), which 166W emerged from the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and which is scheduled to run for three years from July 1998, has approved funding of £12 million within MOD's Corporate Research Programme. In addition approximately £500K per annum has been expended since 1991 on technical studies and experiments in collaboration with the US.