Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 18 Rhagfyr 1973.
As I said in answer to a Question by the right hon. and learned Gentleman on 22nd November, it is too early to make a reliable assessment of the expenditure on defence equipment that will take place in the current year. So far as economies in the future years are concerned, I am not yet in a position to give details of how the defence contribution of £178 million towards the savings in public expenditure next year announced yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be made up.—[Vol. 864, c. 492.]