HC Deb 22 July 2004 vol 424 cc528-9W
Mr. Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the reductions in the numbers of civil servants in his Department announced in the comprehensive spending review will be of special advisers. [185465]

Mr. Caplin

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Boateng) on 20 July 2004,Official Report, column 190W.