Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the Annual Budget Cycle 14 Technical Instructions. [173498]

Anna Soubry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans: I am withholding the Annual Budget Cycle 14 Technical Instructions, as its release would be prejudicial to the commercial interests of the Ministry Defence and would be likely to compromise the formulation and development of Government policy.

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