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Comprehensive Spending Review

My hon. Friend is making a sterling speech, and there are no bounds to his generosity in allowing people intervene. My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that I checked up on a written answer given to the right hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, who, I believe, left the Committee with the impression that St Athan did not have a future. I have taken advice and checked the written answer from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, and in fact it states no such thing; the line on St Athan has not changed at all. I am sure all Members, on both sides of the Committee, will welcome the fact that we think that ““technical training co-located on as few sites as possible remains the best solution for our armed forces””, and that ““we have a new programme in place to assess requirement and options””—[Official Report, 23 November 2010; Vol. 519, c. 220W.] —something that the Labour party did not do when it was in government.