Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Single Integrated Capability Priority List. [191179]

Mr Dunne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology (including Defence Exports): The Ministry of Defence has moved away from the concept of holding a list of projects that compete for funding as a basis for apportioning the unallocated budget. Instead, high-level military objectives have been mapped to the elements, such as equipment and support, necessary to achieve those objectives. This process has been used to identify where and when gaps in future capability might appear, to inform the apportionment of the unallocated budget available from 2017-18 onwards. This approach was set out in the NAO EP 2013 to 2023 report published on 12 February 2014, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.

| Hansard