To ask the Secretary of State for Defence from which defence vote and subhead he proposes to make funds available to the proposed new urban development corporation in Plymouth; how much he proposes to make available; and what value has been placed on the amounts of development land surplus to his Department's requirements which he proposes to hand over to the proposed corporation.

The Ministry of Defence has undertaken to provide £20 million and some surplus land to support the proposed Plymouth urban development corporation announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on the 6 March; this forms part of a package for the disposal of the Royal William yard.