Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 18 Rhagfyr 1973.
Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that export sales of this aircraft could recoup the development costs? Furthermore, would it not be a dangerous precedent that would not go unnoticed in the Kremlin if industrial action in this country were so to disrupt the economy as to incur a unilateral cut in defence expenditure on critically important programmes like this?