My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend. He is absolutely right to stress that the decisions have been taken by the executive committee of the army Board. The removal of the arms plot will lead to a 20 per cent improvement in the efficiency of the battalions. Although we have reduced the number of battalions by four to enable us to make the investment needed in the "enablers" I have referred to—the logisticians and so on—the battalions that we do have will be available for active service more often because of the change to the organisation. The quality of life of our soldiers will be improved by the removal of the disruption that they have had in the past because of the arms plot.