Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Alan Brown Excerpts
Monday 8th July 2019

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Ah, the three musketeers.

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Portrait Mark Lancaster
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The announcement on Fort George under the better defence estate strategy remains as it is, but the hon. Gentleman will know of our commitment to our armed forces personnel in Scotland. I am sure that he is delighted that he will shortly have the whole of the submarine fleet based in Scotland.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown
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In a ministerial response to my hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes), the Minister stated a whole raft of subjects on which armed forces personnel need support and advice. Did he not make the case for a representative body for the armed forces?

Tobias Ellwood Portrait Mr Ellwood
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I do not need to do that, because we have had this question so many times that I have given the answer so many times.