Examination of Witnesses (Questions 120-123)
MR BILL
JEFFREY CB AND
MR TREVOR
WOOLLEY CB
28 NOVEMBER 2007
Q120 Mr Jones: The report on UORs
said that in certain circumstances such as where an existing funded
programme is accelerated, the Treasury may seek reimbursement
from the defence budget on monies advanced from the reserve.
Mr Woolley: It has been the case
for several years now that—
Q121 Mr Jones: I do not want to know
that, I want to know how much.
Mr Woolley: There are a number
of UORs that have been advanced from later in the equipment programme
where we have agreed that we will repay the Treasury that cost
in the year in which it was originally planned to procure them.
As of now I do not believe we have incurred or repaid, as you
say, to the Treasury any such cost but there will in the future
be a number of costs. I do not have the precise sum or the precise
years at my finger tips.
Q122 Mr Jones: Could you write to
us with figures and also what the programmes are as well.
Mr Jeffrey: Yes.[8]
Q123 Chairman: It is now ten to twelve.
I am grateful to both of our witnesses and to the Committee for
being clipped and brief in your questions and your answers and
thank you very much indeed for what I found an interesting and
valuable evidence session in which I think, if I may say so, you
genuinely tried insofar as you were able to answer the questions
that we put to you. I am grateful; it was worth waiting for.
Mr Jeffrey: Could I say, Chairman,
I appreciate the tone in which you make that remark, all the more
so given that I am conscious of our own shortcomings over material
we failed to send you earlier. I hope that that incident has not
affected what I regard as a very important relationship.
Chairman: It has not.
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