§ Lord LYELLasked Her Majesty's Government:
What has been the effect on planned defence expenditure at 1977 Survey prices for each of the years 1975–76 to 1983–84 of the cuts announced in March 1975, April 1975, February 1976, July 1976, December 1976 and on any subsequent occasion.
§ Lord WINTERBOTTOMThe information requested is given, at 1976 Survey prices, in the Second Report 2261WA from the Expenditure Committee 1976–77 (House of Commons Paper 254). At
1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 Annual Average 1980–81 to 1983–84 1. Pre-Defence Review Programme 7,051 7,218 7,425 7,695 7,845 8,067 2. Cuts announced in: a. Defence Review 533 479 632 887 1,102 1,219 b. April 1975 — 195 — — — — c. February 1976 — — 232 261 222 — d. July 1976 — — 116 — — — e. December 1976 — — 116 267 — — 3. Total Reductions 533 674 1,096 1,415 1,324 1,219 4. Revised Defence Budget totals 6,518 6,544 6,329 6,280 6,521 6,848