§ 24. Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is his latest estimate 524W of the total outturn of expenditure on defence in the current financial year; and how this compares with the expenditure on defence in the financial year 1973–74.
§ Mr. MulleyThe latest forecast of outturn is that defence expenditure in 1978–79 will be £6,760 million at 1978 survey prices. On the same price base, the outturn in 1973–74 was £7,039 million.