Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Sarah Newton Excerpts
Monday 13th September 2010

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. If we are to make serious progress, we need rather pithier questions and answers from now on.

Sarah Newton Portrait Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth) (Con)
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T7. What recent assessment has the Secretary of State made of the benefit of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary cluster contract in reducing costs and improving efficiency?

Peter Luff Portrait Peter Luff
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I am delighted to be able to tell my hon. Friend that her constituency is playing a major part in ensuring that those contracts are delivering, as it were, more for less, with much greater capability compared to previous contracting arrangements, at lower cost. I congratulate her constituents in Falmouth for the part they are playing.