On 10 November 1975, Kit Dodds, Assistant Under Secretary in the British Ministry of Defence, writes to Sir Arthur David Saunders Goodall, Head of the Western European Department in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), in reply to a letter of 6 October 1975 from Sir John William Denys Margetson, Head of Chancery at the United Kingdom delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), on the future of Western European Union's Standing Armaments Committee (SAC). Kit Dodds supports Margetson's position that at present, SAC is a waste of money and manpower. He also states that if the British cannot succeed in having SAC dissolved, then they should at least press to reduce the number of times it meets.