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Recommendation 11
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More widely, the Committee asked whether the Plan was now based on a large number...
Conclusion
More widely, the Committee asked whether the Plan was now based on a large number of past assumptions, observing that it does not include funding for capabilities 7 Q2 8 Q8 9 Q86 10 Qq 7–8 11 Q88 12 Q64 13 Q68 14 Q71 15 Q75 16 Q54 17 Committee of Public Accounts, Delivering carrier strike, HC 684, November 2020, paragraph 4 18 Q54 19 C&AG’s report, paragraph 1.8, Qq 62 – 63, Q76 20 Letter to the Committee from the Permanent Secretary, 21 March 2022. 21 Q79 10 Ministry of Defence Equipment Plan 2021–31 other nations are developing such as hypersonic rockets.22 The Department responded that the strategy in developing the Plan was to close current capability gaps and to invest in the technologies “to have the capability required to deter our potential aggressors in the future”. The Department told us it believes it is now placing much more attention on developing new technologies than it did in the 2010 and 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Reviews. It told us it had £4.1 billion set aside in the years after 2025 for further development of new technology.23