§ Mr. Denzil Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Defence what, to date, has been the gross cost to his Department of preparing and publishing the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982", Cmnd. 8529 I and II; and how many copies have been printed.
§ Mr. NottInformation on the gross cost to the Ministry of Defence of preparing and publishing the "Statement on the Defence Estimates" 1982 is not readily available and it would involve disproportionate time and effort to provide it. A total of 9,500 copies of volume 1 and 8,867 of volume 2 have been printed.