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Mr. Hoyle
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 17 December 1998, Official Report, column 656, on REME (Chorley), if he will set out the basis of his estimate of 25 per cent. saving in operating the 101 Battalion REME out of Queensferry instead of Chorley. [68154]
Mr. Doug Henderson
The assessment has been made on the basis of a comparison of the estimated running and maintenance costs of the two sites.