§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing the proportion of the gross national product of each member country of the NATO alliance spent on defence.
§ Mr. MasonI have nothing to add to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) on 13th January 1976.—[Vol. 903, c. 187–8.]
§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish figures showing the annual amount proposed in defence cuts for the next nine years.
§ Mr. MasonThe savings resulting from the defence review were published in the 1975 Defence White Paper (Cmnd. 5976). When the current public expenditure survey exercise is finalised, the future level of the defence budget will be published in the usual way.