questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the £6.6bn in R&D spend for defence announced in his Department's paper entitled Defence and Security Industrial Strategy: A strategic approach to the UK’s defence and security industrial sectors, CP 410, published in March 2021, is (a) uncommitted and (b) unspent.
answerText: As part of this Spending Review Period (financial years 2021-22 to 2024-25) the Department established a ringfence of £6.6 billion for R&D across the four years. This was a minimum required spend over the period, rather than a set amount. All R&D funding ...
heading: Defence: Research