HC Deb 04 March 1970 vol 797 c107W
Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will arrange that Army tracked vehicles on training exercises should only use the

Expenditure
Proportion
Year Within Defence Outside Defence Total of GNP at
Budget Budget Factor Cost
£ million £ million £ million Per cent.
1959–60 … … … 1,528 35 1,563 7.2
1960–61 … … … 1,612 7 1,619 7.0
1961–62 … … … 1,694 45 1,739 7.1
1962–63 … … … 1,767 68 1,835 7.1
1963–64 … … … 1,811 70 1,881 6.7
1964–65 … … … 1,941 42 1,983 6.7
1965–66 … … … 2,058 45 2,103 6.6
1966–67 … … … 2,141 68 2,209 6.6
1967–68 … … … 2,236 77 2,313 6.6
1968–69* … … … 2,252 75 2,327 6.3
1969–70* … … … 2,256 81 2,337 6.0
1970–71† … … … 2,370–2,380 58 2,428–2,438 about 5⅔
* The expenditure figures for 1968–69 and 1969–70 are provisional.
† The 1970–71 figures are Estimates of expenditure, in the case of the Defence Budget including an assessment amounting to £90 million-£100 million, of the supplementary provision which will need to be sought from Parliament as a result of the recently announced changes in Service pay.
—[Vol. 791, c. 295]