Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter referred to by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, in his evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on 4 February 2013 which sets out defence expenditure assumptions. [155019]

Mr Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence: No. The letter in question was addressed to me from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and relates to discussions of funding between spending reviews and other matters that would not normally be released.

I can, however, say that the letter confirmed the departmental expenditure limits for the current spending review period and that the 10-year funding profile for the Equipment Programme had not changed.

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