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TOPICAL DEBATES Financial Stability

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 8 October, I received a written parliamentary reply to a parliamentary question I tabled to the Under-Secretary of State for Defence, the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies). In that reply, on the sale of helicopters to foreign Governments, I was informed by the Minister that only three helicopters had been sold to foreign Governments since 2002. On a serious point, that contradicts an earlier reply from a previous Armed Forces Minister dated 6 November 2006, in which the then Minister of State said that six helicopters had been sold to foreign Governments. Is it not concerning, Madam Deputy Speaker, at a time when our armed forces need helicopters in Afghanistan and Iraq, that Defence Ministers do not seem to know how many they have sold to foreign Governments?