HC Deb 29 November 1988 vol 142 c228W
96. Miss Emma Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on any changes he proposes in the defence budget.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

As last year, substantial increases to previous plans for defence expenditure were announced in the autumn statement. These increases mean that the defence budget will now be growing by about a billion pounds a year for the next three years.