Defence written question – answered on 19 October 2009.
Clare Short
Independent Labour, Birmingham, Ladywood
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2009, Official Report, column 2000W, on helicopters: Nepal, what the cost to the public purse was of each helicopter gifted to the Royal Nepal Army; and what the purchase price of a new model M1-17 helicopter was at the time the gift was made.
Bob Ainsworth
The Secretary of State for Defence
holding answer
The total cost for the two gifted helicopters was £2.5 million, £1.25 million per aircraft.
Information on the purchase price of a new helicopter at the time the gift was made is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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