Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 26 March 2012.
I very much doubt it, but I suspect—[ Interruption. ] As I have said repeatedly, anyone who has been in government knows that in the run-up to a Budget, we get representations from all sorts of people, in favour of everything and against everything. I have no doubt that the Chancellor received lots of representations from all directions on this and other subjects.