This is where the whole thing becomes lop-sided.
It calls for a cut of £1,000 million over and above the £9,900 million already lopped off the defence budget.
If inspectors, however conscientious and however competent, inquire into three, four or half a dozen matters, they are producing a balance sheet which is lop-sided.
Approximately £5 million has been lopped off it this year.
They took the form of successive persons appointed to the rank of chief secretary lopping £10 million off the budget.
The frequency of pollarding depended on the product required: for fodder, trees were usually lopped annually; for wood, the lapse was variable, depending on the species.
However, it does not provide a significant reduction over lop-all using random sampling: the two combinations are equivalent in their effectiveness for using the annotated material.
Local spending was even more lop-sided.
