HC Deb 30 November 1989 vol 162 cc359-60W
Mr. Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will calculate the number of jobs in establishments producing the procurement budget for each year since 1979.

Mr. Neubert

Estimates of United Kingdom employment dependent on defence equipment expenditure from 1978–79 to 1986–87 (the latest period for which estimates are available) are given in table 6.8 of Statement on the Defence Estimates 1989, Volume 2.