asked the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions (a) written and (b) oral submissions have been made by his Department to each of the new Select Committees; what was the subject of inquiry; and how many pages there were in each of the submissions.

[pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1982, c. 308]: There were also three evidence sessions attended by Ministry of Defence witnesses in connection with the inquiry by the Defence Committee into the Royal dockyards.