PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the Main Supply Estimates 2014-15, HC 1233 of Session 2013-14, for what reasons he seeks Parliamentary authority to appropriate £7.5 billion in capital expenditure instead of the £8.7 billion allocated in the June 2013 spending round; and if he will make a statement. [205676]
Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence: An explanation of the variance between the 2010 CSR settlement and main estimates 2014-15 was provided in written evidence to the Defence Committee and published on 24 June 2014:
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidence...