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Falklands: MOD briefing for Nott (Commons Saturday session) [figures on defence expenditure showing increase on conventional navy since May 1979] [declassified Oct 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: DEFE13/1606 f20
Editorial comments:

The jottings "£400m of ships, Sea Wolf" etc are in Nott's handwriting. Possibly this briefing was used by him while working on his speech to the Commons or to Conservative backbenchers afterwards. Read other documents selected from this file.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Parliament, Defence (Falklands)