Strategic Defence and Security Review Debate
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Lord Palmer of Childs Hill
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Strategic Defence and Security Review
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire
The coalition Government promised in 2010 that there would be moves towards a regular SDSR. The noble Baroness will well understand that this is because the Labour Government did not have a strategic review between 1998 and the end of their 13 years in office. It is our intention that the next Government—however they may be constituted—should conduct a post-election SDSR as a matter of urgency.
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD)
Could the Minister give the House the government assessment of the security risks from terrorism that will be included in the review?
Lord Wallace of Saltaire
My Lords, terrorism, just like transborder organised crime, is clearly one of the major threats that we have to consider. There is a domestic dimension as well as an international one, and the Government are devoting considerable resources to both those overlapping issues.