My hon. Friend makes an important point about an attitude, with which I entirely agree. Under this Government, we are seeing for the first time an increase in the defence budget by 0.5% each year. We have a growing defence budget, a new naval base east of Suez again, Type 31s giving us the opportunity to increase platform numbers on the fleet, and new aircraft carriers. Under this Government we see an increasing defence budget and increasing defence capability.
Defence Capability
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Courts
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 19 October 2017.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Defence Capability.
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