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Rosie Cooper

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Monday 8th November 2010

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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T5. Could the Secretary of State share with us his assessment of the impact of service personnel reductions on the UK’s military capability?

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We have specifically tasked the armed forces with ensuring that the reductions in military numbers that we have required of them, as a result of the defence review and the budgetary pressures on us, do not impact on Britain’s military capabilities.

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