§ Sir Ian Orr-Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Defence in what month and what year was the foreign exchange cost of British forces East of Suez last running at the rate of £100 million a year; and in what month and what year was the resource cost at £300 million a year.
§ Mr. Healey:The estimate of overseas expenditure was a little over £100 million a year at current prices in 1967–68 and a little below it in 1968–69. On the second part of the Question I have nothing to add to the answer I gave to a supplementary question by the right hon. Member for Harrogate (Mr. Ramsden) on 6th May.—[Vol. 801, c. 387–8.]