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1974-5
1979-80 - 4985-44 (annual average)
Royal l'avy
25
Army
34
Royal Air Force
31
Procurement Executive
8
Miscellaneous
2
28
33
30
7
2
79.
Defence Budget estimates for 1975-6 total £4,548 million.
The difference in cash terms from the target of £3700 million is accounted for by pay and price increases of £848 million over the past year. In real terms the size of the programme is unchanged as compared with the proposals announced on 3 December, and represents about 5 per cent of GRP.
THE REMAINDER OF THIS WHITE PAPER
20. The main purpose of the remainder of this Statement (Chapter I ̃-
VIT) is to report on the state of Britain's defence forces, their
activities, deployment and equipment. over the past two years since
the publication of the last Statement on the Defence Fstimates 1073 (Cmnd.
Cmnd. 5231), and before Defence Review decisions were taken. Fut
where appropriate the implications of the Defence Review decisions.
set out in this Chapter are described in subsequent Chapters.
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