§ Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has investigated the desirability of a more extended use of boats made from fibre glass roving for use by the armed forces.
§ Mr. MasonYes. We use glass reinforced plastic for Service craft wherever
160Wto the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology, in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Bristol, North-East (Mr. Dobson) on 25th October, 1967. The unit price of the aircraft is about £1.3 million. The total costs of the Phantom programme are now assessed at around £700 million over a ten year period. The total Phantom order is for 170 aircraft and these are due to be delivered in 1968 and 1969.—[Vol. 751, c. 509–10.]