Labour’s 1998 strategic defence review defined the optimum capability for amphibiosity in the UK as not just two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, but six Point-class sea-lift ships, one landing helicopter dock on HMS Ocean, two Albion-class landing platform docks and four Bay-class landing ship docks. That assumption should not have changed; why has it? Why has the capability been cut since then? We have had no explanation from the Minister.
UK Amphibious Capability
Proceeding contribution from
Paul Sweeney
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 November 2017.
It occurred during Debate on UK Amphibious Capability.
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