HC Deb 20 February 1979 vol 963 cc145-6W
Mr. Trotter

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will give an assurance that none of the cost of implementing the recommendations of the Armed Services Pay Review Body in the coming year will be found by means of savings in purchases of equipment, ammunition or stores.

Mr. Mulley

We are committed to implement the recommendation of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body in its 1979 report on the updating of the Services' pay award to April 1979. As to its financing, I ask the hon. Member to await the publication of the statement on the defence estimates on 22 February.