§ Mr. BluntTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if his plans for the defence budget assume a receipt arising from the sale of all or part of the Defence Estimate and Research Agency. [107413]
§ Mr. Hoon[holding answer 1 February 2000]: For outline planning purposes, we have assumed that a Public Private Partnership (PPP) for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency will generate a receipt for the Exchequer and that an element of this will form a credit to the defence budget. The size of any receipt will depend on the PPP option chosen and no final decision on this has yet been made.