HC Deb 05 December 1973 vol 865 c409W
68 Mr. Frank Allaun

asked the Minister of State for Defence what is the proportion of the United Kingdom's gross national product devoted to current arms expenditure; how this proportion compares with the average for the other Western European NATO countries; and what would be the annual saving in cash terms of reducing the proportion to that of those countries.

Mr. Ian Gilmour

Revised figures should be available shortly. In the meantime I would refer the hon. Gentleman to what I said in the defence debate on 15th March 1973.—[Vol. 852, c. 1516.]

Back to