§ Mr. Wallasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give an undertaking that there will be no cuts in the naval shipbuilding programmes already announced by the Government.
§ Mr. MasonThe forecast of the future Fleet programme given in Chapter IV of the July White Paper represents new construction in the current year totalling some £75 million—an increase of 50 per cent. over the rate set by the previous Administration—and I do not propose to alter it.