Bob Stewart
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(12 years, 1 month ago)
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The Minister for the Armed Forces (Nick Harvey)
That is part of our ongoing review. I shall come back to the hon. Gentleman with more details as soon as we have finalised our decisions.
Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)
I was with service families 10 days ago. They told me that, at the moment, what they are most worried about is redundancy. Does my right hon. Friend agree that we ought to get redundancy done as soon as possible, so that morale can improve?
Mr Philip Hammond
My hon. Friend is absolutely right: uncertainty saps morale. That is why the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force have completed the announcements of redundancies required. Because of the rebasing, the drawdown from Afghanistan and the return from Germany, it has not been possible for the Army to complete that process, but we will make announcements as soon as we can to provide as much certainty as possible.