§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Defence what use his Department makes of the United States system of armoured division equivalents in assessing the balance of forces between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw Pact; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. StanleyThe system of armoured division equivalents is not used in the assessment of the balance of the military forces of East and West, as presented in successive "Statements on the Defence Estimates". The difficulty of calculating the balance using this and other methods is described on pages 58–59 of volume I of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1986".