I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. He is absolutely right. In December 2017, not only were none of our destroyers out, but, as revealed by an answer to my parliamentary question, for the first time in history not a single Royal Navy frigate or destroyer was deployed overseas. That demonstrates powerfully the scale of the pressure on our Royal Navy and its lack of capability.
Ministry of Defence
Proceeding contribution from
Toby Perkins
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2018.
It occurred during Estimates day on Ministry of Defence.
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