§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what is the approximate total number of men, tanks, aircraft carriers, submarines, surface warships, air to air missiles and planes for combat available to the NATO Alliance;
(2) what is his estimate of the total number of men, tanks, aircraft carriers, submarines, surface warships, air-to-air missiles and planes for combat available to the Soviet bloc.
§ Mr. MasonI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) on 21st October 1975 and to the assessment of the military balance set out in Chapter I—figures 2 and 3—and Chapter II of the Statement on the Defence Estimates 1975, Cmnd. 5976.—[Vol. 898, c. 149–50.]