Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has he made of (a) the size of the Army's current stockpiles of artillery shells and (b) the Army's ability to fulfil the UK's NATO commitments to allies such as Estonia.

The Army continually manages and reviews all of its stocks of weapons and munitions. Due to the classification of these assessments, it is inappropriate to give the detail in this forum.

We remain fully committed to collective defence through NATO and other multinational readiness forces, as demonstrated by our deployments to Estonia and the announcement, at the NATO Summit in Madrid, of the 1* UK Headquarters in Estonia.