Oral Answers to Questions

Alistair Strathern Excerpts

Monday 20th May 2024 Commons Chamber

[James Cartlidge]

As the Secretary of State confirmed, we will have two A400M aircraft available for D-Day 80 on 5 June. The number of people who will be dropped will be 181, for the very good reason that that is the number of paratroopers who, at sixteen minutes past midnight on D-Day itself, landed and took the bridge that we named Pegasus.

[Alistair Strathern (Mid Bedfordshire) (Lab)]

T10. In my Westminster Hall debate last year, the Minister for Defence Procurement announced plans to close the Chicksands base in my constituency, and pledged to write with further detail. I am yet to hear more from the Minister, but my constituents are, understandably, becoming deeply concerned. Will the Minister meet me to discuss the issue further and what more we can do in the meantime to address the shocking state of accommodation on the base?

[James Cartlidge]

I am happy to meet the hon. Gentleman.