I have read the NAO report. In fact, I usually bring it to every parliamentary questions because the good thing about it is that it shows that in the final year of the Labour Government they spent £3 billion without any idea whatsoever where they were going to get it from—it says it quite clearly in the executive summary. This was the same Government who said the carriers would cost £3 billion and they cost £6 billion. That is a record not to be proud of. We do not recognise the 4:1 ratio the right hon. Gentleman talks about in respect of the F-35s. We will deliver the 48 F-35s to our forces by 2025 and, as it says in the paper, we will go beyond that number.
Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper
Proceeding contribution from
Ben Wallace
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper.
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