§ Sir Nicholas BonsorTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing the cash sums 451W allocated for (a) civilian and (b) military redundancies in each service in 1995–96, 1996–97 and 1997–98; what additional annual costs will fall to his Department in each of those years as a result of accruing superannuation liability changes associated with the early payment of lump sum benefits and annual pension payments to redundant service personnel; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. SoamesThe costs of service redundancies and those civilian redundancy costs which fall to my Department will be met from within the planned defence budget totals announced on 29 November 1994. Those plans contain some £220,000,000 in 1995–96 and £310,000,000 in 1996–97, more in real terms—at 1993–94 prices—principally to meet the costs of service redundancies which I announced in my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Thurnham) on 19 December 1994,Official Report, column 870. No additional costs will fall to the defence budget in the years in question to meet the costs associated with the early payment of lump sum benefits and annual pensions to redundant service personnel.