I see that units of Government press officers have been on manoeuvres this past week, but unfortunately they have been spinning on cuts to our Army. The regular Army will have shrunk from 113,000 to 72,000 under Conservative Governments since 2010, so why does the Secretary of State not accept that reducing the size of our forces makes our country less agile and less secure?
Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper
Proceeding contribution from
Nick Smith
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
691 c659
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-06-20 11:07:48 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-22/21032230000037
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-22/21032230000037
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-22/21032230000037