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<p>In August, following the European Commission’s decision to exclude the UK from
the development of Galileo’s encrypted system, the Prime Minister committed £92 million
to establish a taskforce of Government specialists and industry to develop alternative
options that will provide both civilian and encrypted signals. This engineering study
is due to report in 2019-20 and will inform the decision of whether the UK pursues
a sovereign Global Navigation Satellite System. Funding for new major programmes will
be a matter for the forthcoming Spending Review.</p>
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