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» Monday, February 14, 2011

MOD Budget

Asked about the Ministry of Defence budgets, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Treasury would be laying supplementary estimates later this morning.

We had looked very hard at these issues during the SDSR, and we had been clear that we would need to deal with the problems in the Defence budget. The PMS said that our economic security and our national security were inextricably linked; dealing with the deficit and other economic problems was fundamental to ensuring that in the future we would be able to protect our national security effectively.

Asked if another 1billion black hole in the Defence budget had been found, the PMS replied that we had looked very hard at the issue at the time of the SDSR. There were significant problems with the Defence budget and we were seeking to address those problems.

On whether the problems were even worse than was first thought, the PMS said that we had not yet entered the spending period set out in the SDSR, which began in April this year. The MOD would need to live within their spending limits like all other Government departments.

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