Mr. O'NeillTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 16 May,Official Report, column 271, if he will make a statement on the nature of the information about his Department's expected refitting programme that has been provided to the management companies of Rosyth and Devonport dockyards.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleThe nature of the information provided by the Ministry of Defence to the management companies at Devonport and Rosyth in respect of their core programmes is a commercially confidential matter.