DEFENCE EQUIPMENT
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the cost of recuperating non-urgent operational requirements equipment lost, damaged or prematurely worn out will be met from the core defence budget or the Treasury Special Reserve. [136234]
Mr Dunne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence: HM Treasury reimburse Ministry of Defence for the net additional costs associated with the demonstrable increase in wear and tear on non-urgent operational assets as a consequence of operational use.