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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Alun Cairns Excerpts
Monday 10th October 2011

(13 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Peter Luff Portrait Peter Luff
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I make regular visits to the Filton Abbey Wood site, as the hon. Lady knows, to discuss those issues with the staff, and I appreciate the concern that they face. The chief of defence matériel, Bernard Gray, is currently conducting a full review of matériel strategy and how the organisation will be structured in future, and I hope that its outcome will give precisely the certainty that she rightly seeks for her constituents.

Alun Cairns Portrait Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)
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I congratulate the Secretary of State on the leadership that he has shown on Libya. What action is he taking with his Libyan counterparts to help prevent the risk of insurgent activity, in preparation for the national transitional council taking complete control?

Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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The first thing that we require is an end to hostilities; then we require disarmament and the militia’s incorporation into national forces; and then we require the formation of a Government as soon as possible—a Government who include all elements of Libya’s geography and ethnic make-up and are cross-generational.