To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the running costs of the Red Arrows were in each year since 2010.

The available figures for the running costs of the Red Arrows for the last two financial years (FY) are as follows:

These figures include all operating costs, but exclude asset depreciation and the capital cost of aircraft or buildings.

Ministry of Defence officials are collating the information requested for FY 2010-11 and I will write to the hon. Member when this work is complete.

Substantive answer from Andrew Murrison to Kevan Jones:

I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question of 13 March 2014 (Official Report; column 325W) about the running costs of the Red Arrows. I can now confirm that the running costs for Financial Year 2010-11 were £9.73 million.

This figure includes all operating costs, but excludes asset depreciation and the capital cost of aircraft or buildings.