§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the basis of the calculation of the cash budget of the Chief of Defence Logistics in 1996–97 in his Department's expenditure plans 1999–2000 to 2001–02, Table 1A. [82515]
§ Mr. George RobertsonThe Defence Logistics Organisation brings together the three single Service logistics commands: the Chief of Fleet Support, Quartermaster General and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Land Logistics Command. In order to show comparable figures for the new Chief of Defence Logistics Top Level Budget (TLB) for previous years, the budgets of those former TLBs, which under the earlier Estimates structure were shown on Vote 2 (Defence: logistics services), have been added together. In addition, the total figures for 1996–97 and 1997–98 have been adjusted by the amounts of the loans and grants to and repayments from the Hydrographic Office Defence Agency that had previously been contained within the Chief of Fleet Support TLB but which it has now been decided should be shown separately for all years in Supply Estimates (Vote subhead 1N) and, therefore, in Table la of The Government's Expenditure Plans 1999–2000 to 2001–02: Ministry of Defence.