Defence Spending (Wales)

I genuinely thank the hon. Gentleman for his clarity and honesty, because we are seeing a complete volte-face from the Conservative party's position before the election, when there was cross-party sign-up and support for the Metrix bid and the MOD's analysis of it. The hon. Gentleman has now made it clear that the bid did not stack up—not in terms of the MOD's priorities, but in terms of spending, and that is a tragedy. We now know that if we argued for the Metrix bid for St Athan, we would not have the Conservative party's support.