Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Wallace
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the budget change in his Department will be in each year of the 2008 to 2011 Comprehensive Spending Review period in cash terms.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
The near-cash budget in nominal terms (equivalent to direct resource DEL plus capital DEL) for each year of the comprehensive spending review (CSR) period is set out in table D14 of the CSR White Paper (Cm 7227), published in October 2007. For ease of reference the table is included as follows:

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|Financial year  |Budget (£ million)|Change on previous year|
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|2007-08 baseline|29,411            |—                      |
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|2008-09         |30,763            |1,352                  |
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|2010-11         |31,921            |1,158                  |
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|2011-12         |33,628            |1,707                  |
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