§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 5 May 1999,Official Report, column 382, on efficiency savings, when he will write to the hon. Member. [87586]
§ Mr. George RobertsonThe figures that the hon. Member has requested on savings measures are currently being validated for consideration by my Department's Ministerial Efficiency Steering Group. Once that exercise is complete, I shall write to the hon. Member. As my Department has supplied an illustrative list of efficiency measures for 1998–99 and 1999–2000 to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, I am unable to make that information available to him until after the Committee have published the information in a Commons Daily Part. We expect that the Committee will make this information available to the House within the next week.