Oral Answers to Questions

Gagan Mohindra Excerpts

Monday 10th January 2022 Commons Chamber

[Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)]

5. What steps his Department is taking to help protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

[Mr Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire) (Con)]

8. What steps his Department is taking to help protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

[Jerome Mayhew (Broadland) (Con)]

14. What steps his Department is taking to help protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

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[Mr Wallace]

It became very clear after 2014 that Ukraine had lost large parts of its navy to Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea, and it is important to help Ukraine build up and sustain a naval capability. We have continued to invest in that, and last year we signed not only an MOI but an agreement to sell naval patrol boats with weapons systems to the Ukrainian Government.

[Mr Mohindra]

I associate myself with the comments about Jack Dromey.

Does my right hon. Friend share my gratitude to the excellent staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood in my constituency for their superb leadership and focus on our overseas operations?

[Mr Wallace]

My hon. Friend is right to pay tribute to staff at PJHQ. Both civilian and military staff constantly work around the clock to deliver a whole range of international operations and, in terms of the frontline, are always ready and prepared to deploy to wherever we need in the world, including in Ukraine.