Army Welfare (Committee's Report)

HC Deb 15 November 1976 vol 919 cc363-4W

Mr. Beith

asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether he has received the report of the Army Welfare Inquiry Committee;

(2) when he will publish the report of the Army Welfare Inquiry Committee.

Dr. Gilbert

No major warship orders were placed in 1974–75 while the defence review was in progress. The major warship ordering programmes for 1975–76 and 1976–77 were set out in Chapter III of the defence White Papers for 1975 and 1976. No contracts have been deferred after being placed, but within these annual programmes planned dates for placing contracts have been deferred as follows:

Mr. Robert C. Brown

I have received the report of the Committee on Army Welfare. It will be published shortly, and I shall arrange at that time for a copy to be placed in the Library.