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Defence in the United Kingdom

I think that I will go back to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s earlier comments. I indicated in an earlier contribution that defence budgets are always under pressure. They always have been and probably always will be, because our aspirations outstrip our resources at all times. Can he tell us, since he is criticising what we are seeking to do through a £2.8 billion efficiency programme, where he would have got the other £1.6 billion efficiency savings that he was campaigning on at the last general election? The Conservatives were seeking to take out £4.4 billion and I am telling him that it is very difficult to take out £2.8 billion.