Armed Forces: Airborne Maritime Patrol

Lord Davies of Stamford Excerpts

Thursday 4th June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, it is important to emphasise that the SDSR will be underpinned by a very robust assessment of the threats that face us and the needs that we have to meet those threats. On the noble Lord’s wider point, the Ministry of Defence is just one organisation with a role in the security of the UK’s territorial waters. Under the UK national strategy for maritime security we have a ministerial working group chaired by the FCO. That has been established to focus on maritime security in its entirety.

[Lord Davies of Stamford (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Noble Lords]

Order!