questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of spending by his Department on (a) novel and (b) directed energy weapons for land domain system technologies in the (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial year.
answerText: The only “Novel” weapons technology work is the Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) work. There are currently two technology funding streams for DEW. These are the funding committed via the MOD Strategic Programmes Area as part of the Novel Weapons Programme an...
heading: Ministry of Defence: Technology