To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will break down in near cash terms the tables included in note (a) 24 of the MoD Resource Accounts 2001-02, (b) 25 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2002-03, (c) 26 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2003-04 and (d) 26 of MoD Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05; (245132)

The expenditure in the notes requested is expressed in total resource costs terms. Near cash expenditure is not separately identified in the final resource accounts or the centrally held supporting records and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.