§ Mr. Matesasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will update at current prices and in the light of subsequent changes in defence estimates the figures printed in the Second Report of the Expenditure Committee, HC 254 (1976–77) p.x.
§ Mr. MulleyThe information requested is as follows 153W
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£million at 1978 Survey Prices 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 Annual Average 1980–81 to 1983–84 1. Pre-Defence Review Programme 7,633 7,728 7,818 8,003 8,232 8,532 8,721 8,992 2. Cuts announced in: (a) May/October 1973 64 162 — — — — — — (b) December 1973 — 403 — — — — — — (c) April 1974 — 108 — — — — — — (d) Defence Review — — 592 531 700 984 1,225 1,358 (e) April 1975 — — — 216 — — — — (f) 1975 Public Expenditure Survey — — — — 257 289 247 — (g) July 1976 — — — — 129 — — — (h) December 1976 — — — — 129 296 — — 3. Total reductions 64 673 592 747 1,215 1,569 1,472 1,358 4. Revised Defence Budget Totals 7,569 7,055 7,226 7,256 7,017 6,963 7,249 7,634 5. 1977 Public Expenditure Survey (Cmnd. 7049)† 6,973 7,191 7,418 7,424 — — 6. 1978 Public Expenditure Survey (Cmnd. 7439)*† 7,182 7,398 7,424 7,424 — * No decision was taken during the 1978 Public Expenditure Survey about the Defence Budget for the years 1981–82 and 1982–83. The figures shown in italics represent simply the revaluation to 1978 Survey Prices of the 1981–82 figure in Cmnd. 7049 and are consequently only provisional. † As explained in Cmnd. 7439 these figures have been adjusted to reflect the fact that the former National Accounts adjustments are now included in the Defence Budget.