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Comprehensive Spending Review

I will not. I want to deal specifically with some projects that were raised in the context of the CSR. We examined closely the plans for the St Athan defence training centre. It will not be going ahead in the form proposed by the previous Government, as it became clear that the contractor could not deliver the project in an affordable and commercially robust way within the time given. However, let me assure the Committee, particularly my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan, that it is not the end for St Athan. It remains an attractive location for potential future training provision, and I am working closely with the Secretary of State for Defence on the case for a training base to be located there. On the Severn barrage, I know that the right hon. Member for Neath has had a thing about it for a long time. In the current economic climate, we took the view that the Severn barrage—proposed by the previous Government, but unfunded, Members should note—could not go ahead. It would have been irresponsible to do so given the economic and environmental implications. My colleague, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, believes that Wales has other viable, more cost-effective low-carbon options, including a significant expansion in wind power, which represent a better deal for industry and consumers.