Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 December 1958.
Does not my hon. Friend agree, without giving away secrets, that, from the information available to the general public, it would seem that the number is not likely to be more than two? Further, will he agree that the very heavy programme of scrapping quite useful battleships can be justified only by an adequate replacement programme, and that the existing programme indicates that it will give us a very small Fleet in the early 'sixties?