My Lords, I congratulate the Government on an integrated review that brings together all the assets that this country has and uses them to give us a direction of where we should be going in the future. But does my noble friend not share my concern that, at the same time as increasing the defence budget, we are actually reducing the number of servicemen? This might have been something of an answer to the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts. The British Army and our Armed Forces have been involved in low-intensity warfare in recent active service conflicts, and it seems to me that we are highly likely to have more of these in the future. Is it right to reduce the number of men who might be involved in this?
Integrated Review
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hamilton of Epsom
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 17 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Integrated Review.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
811 c408 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-05-01 01:46:03 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-03-17/21031765000101
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-03-17/21031765000101
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-03-17/21031765000101