§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is the anticipated manpower in the Royal Navy for each year until 1993.
§ Mr. Norman LamontIt is not the practice to give detailed forward figures for the strength of the armed forces, as these are subject to change in the light of operational and other considerations. As announced, 561W however, in the 1985 "Statement on the Defence Estimates", on current plans naval manpower numbers are expected to have declined by about 11,000 in the early 1990s from the 1981 level.