House of Commons and House of Lords Hansard Written Answers
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Asked by Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham)
Asked on: 17 March 2020
Ministry of Defence
Defence Equipment: Costs
30690
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March to Question 23543, what measures were taken to achieve efficiency savings in the Defence Equipment Plan 2018; and how much was saved through those measures over the 12 month period covered by that plan.
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Answered by: Jeremy Quin
Answered on: 25 March 2020
The Department has developed saving initiative programmes with industry experts, which work with individual projects and programmes to identify and deliver efficiency savings. The specifics of these initiatives vary by project, but include analysis of potential contractual improvements and that can be achieved while delivering performance improvements. Savings initiatives are developed and monitored using a maturity framework which standardises assessment of potential benefits and allows us to have greater confidence in the benefits that will be delivered. In financial year 2018/19 the Department achieved a total delivery of c£1.1 billion of efficiencies on equipment plan spending against a forecast of £0.9 billion in the Equipment Plan 2018 report. The Department is committed to meeting its 10 year target in full.
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Asked by Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
(Slough)
Asked on: 18 March 2020
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority
31628
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 28772 on Ministry of Defence: Infrastructure and Projects Authority, how many times the scope of an ongoing project listed in his Department’s Major Projects Portfolio changed in each of the last 5 years.
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Answered by: Jeremy Quin
Answered on: 24 March 2020
Information about individual Programmes is owned and held within the relevant Top Level Budget areas by the programmes Senior Responsible Owners. There are currently 38 Programmes on the Defence Major Programmes Portfolio. Many of these programmes contain numerous projects. Therefore, the information to answer this question could be provided only at disproportionate cost.