Key documents

AWE - Site Development Context Plan update, (SDCP08)

Date: 
1 April, 2008
Source: 
http://www.awe.co.uk

AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield
Site Development Context Plan (SDCP)
2005 - 2015
Update (SDCP08)

HM Treasury - 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review: D8 Ministry of Defence, Cm 7227

Date: 
9 October, 2007

2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, Cm 7227
'Meeting the aspirations of the British people'

9 October 2007.

Defence White Paper 2006 - FCO and MoD: The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent, Cm 6994

date: 
4 December, 2006

The Future of the United Kingdom's Nuclear Deterrent
At the 2005 General Election the Labour manifesto made a commitment to retain the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent. Even with an extension to their lives, the Vanguard class submarines are likely to start leaving service from the early 2020s. We estimate that it will take around 17 years to design, manufacture and commission
a replacement submarine. So we need to take decisions now on whether to retain this capability in the longer term.

Fact Sheet 1: Summary: Maintaining the UK's Nuclear Deterrent

Fact Sheet 2: Summary: Disarmament and Non-proliferation

Fact Sheet 3: International Legal Obligations

Fact Sheet 4: The Current System

Fact Sheet 5: The History of the UK's Nuclear Weapons Programme

Fact Sheet 6: Supporting the Trident System

MoD - Defence Industrial Strategy: Defence White Paper, Cm6697

date: 
15 December, 2005
source: 
http://www.mod.uk

'The Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) is structured in three parts:
Part A, providing the strategic context;
Part B, reviewing different industrial sectors and cross-cutting industrial capabilities;
and Part C, outlining the implications for MOD and industry as a whole, and how the DIS will be implemented.'

[from Executive Summary, p 6]