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Defence Procurement

I am trying to find information. I have been told that the Ministry of Defence is no longer in command of these matters, as I feared. The responsibility for defence sales has been transferred to another Department, where it sits alongside that Department's responsibility for other areas of British industry. Last year's record defence sales are a tribute to Alan Garwood and his team of outstanding people, but I want to know how many military delegations are continuing to speak to the Government. I shall look forward to seeing them at Farnborough. I hear that they do not want to speak to UK Trade and Investment. They want to speak to Government, and people in uniform want to speak to other people in uniform. That is the problem.