To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Orpington of 7 May 2009 to his Department on the Spitfire and Hurricane gate guardians at the entrance to St. George's Chapel, Biggin Hill. (279639)

I replied to the hon. Member on 15 June 2009, advising that I would write to him with a substantive reply within the next few weeks.