As pointed out, we exist primarily to offer like for like vehicles in non fault accidents.
In an interview with the Guardian, he said a like-for-like replacement for Trident was not necessary.
It saw a 2.3% fall of like for like sales on the previous year.
The coalition is split, with the Tories backing a like-for-like replacement for Trident, and the Lib Dems opposing it.
Like-for like sales, stripping out sales from new stores, were up 14.5%.
Like for like sales in the first quarter were disappointing, says Arden Partners retail analyst Nick Bubb, bringing four years of continuous growth to a halt.
But ministers in England do not like this approach as it does not allow like-for-like comparisons between schools, nor does it bring the reassurance of external marking.
To get a real picture of a sale, you need to compare like for like, counting both pre-sale estimates and post-sale prices as being net of costs.
He stressed that Channel 4 was not seeking a like-for-like replacement for the reality programme, but admitted that fans of the show would be "disappointed" by its demise.
So how is it that Sainsbury's succeeded in increasing its like-for-like or underlying growth for the 32nd consecutive three-month period (which I am pretty sure is eight years without a hiatus)?
They are also much too quick to assume that the sort of blueprints that work for city states like Singapore or small countries like Denmark might work for goliaths like the United States.
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For the January to March quarter, like-for-like food sales were up 2.5% compared with a year ago, while non-food sales rose 1.9%.
Tesco may be sailing into calmer waters, with signs that its expensive rehabilitation of UK stores may be paying off: it has reported a 1.8% increase in like-for-like or underlying sales, its best performance for three years.
Matalan, which is based in Skelmersdale, west Lancashire, and has more than 150 stores, said that, for the five weeks to 11 January, like-for-like sales rose 1% compared with 13.1% in the previous year.
Demand for electrical goods at Christmas spurred trading at Comet where like-for-like sales were up 6.2%, helped by strong television sales.
"With 33 consecutive quarters of like-for-like sales growth our market share is at its highest level for a decade and we are outperforming our major competitors", he said in a letter to shareholders.
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"Our committee expressed concern about the presentation of this information and argued that any comparisons made, for example with the Gershon review, should be on a like-for-like basis and over the same period, " he said.
And Cardiff-based Peacocks saw sales for the five weeks to 1 January jump 28%, with like-for-like sales ahead 9%.
For instance, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that like-for-like retail sales in January rose 1.9% compared with January 2012 - the biggest rise in more than a year.
Food sales, which now account for 60% of its business, led the strong results, rising 8% on a like-for-like basis in the year.
The effect is already showing: Sephora's like-for-like sales are growing by 11% a year, compared with around 3.5% for cosmetics sales in department stores.
It announced on Friday that like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of sales from stores open less than a year, for the 12 months to the end of April slumped by 13.7%.
However, it added sales would be 1% lower than last year on a like-for-like basis.
It said its like-for-like sales were 5.1% lower in the 14 weeks to 29 December.
That is the fastest rate of like-for-like sales growth since December 2009, the group said.
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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said like-for-like retail sales were up 2.7% on the previous year.
BBC: UK retail sales grew at fastest rate for years in February
During the six-month period, HMV said its like-for-like sales were 10.2% lower than a year earlier.
The issue of a like-for-like replacement of Trident is one that has divided the coalition.
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