§ Dr. WoodcockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will estimate the marginal cost of the British military presence in the Falkland Islands.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe estimated extra cost to the defence budget of the Falkland Islands commitment in 1989–90, as published in the Statement on the Defence Estimates 1990, is £63 million.
§ Dr. WoodcockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer in each of the last five years of emergency assistance by British military forces to foreign fishing vessels in waters surrounding the Falkland Island.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonWhere British military forces are available in the area of an incident emergency assistance is provided free of charge; therefore no comprehensive records are kept and no estimate of the costs involved can be made.