Angus Robertson
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Shadow SNP Westminster Group Leader
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on its prime contracts in (a) the south-west, (b) the south-east, (c) central and (d) east in each year since 2003.
Andrew Robathan
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
The amounts spent on the prime contracts per calendar year are shown in the following table:
| £ million | |||||||
| Regional prime contracts | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Central | — | 3.4 | 64.2 | 117.5 | 105.0 | 69.9 | 76.7 |
| East | — | 5.8 | 41.0 | 86.1 | 91.1 | 64.6 | 71.6 |
| South-east | — | 27.8 | 83.0 | 115.0 | 104.7 | 99.8 | 74.4 |
| South-west | 49.4 | 62.3 | 104.8 | 102.0 | 125.5 | 107.1 | 102.8 |
No spend is shown for 2003 as the first of the contracts was only placed in March 2004. The start dates for the contracts are as follows:
East: March 2006
Central: April 2006
South-east: September 2005
South-west: March 2004.
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