To ask the Secretary of State for Defence of which ministerial directions his Department has been notified since 22 November 2006. (148221)

I assume that the hon. Member is seeking ministerial directions since the answer given by the Financial Secretary on 22 November 2005, Official Report, column 1910W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice).

There has been one ministerial direction since 22 November 2005. On 29 June 2006, I directed the Accounting Officer to proceed with the formal underwriting of the Armed Forces Memorial (AFM) in the sum of £3.3 million which represented the balance the AFM Trustees required fully to fund the project.