§ Mr. BluntTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 4 February 2000,Official Report, column 744W, on DERA, what assumptions have been made about the size of the credit to the defence budget. [109351]
§ Mr. Hoon[holding answer 11 February 2000]: For strictly planning purposes we have assumed that a Public Private Partnership for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency will generate a credit to the Defence Budget; the actual size of any credit will ultimately depend on the PPP option chosen. No final decision on this has yet been made.