Business of the House

Brendan O'Hara Excerpts
Thursday 11th June 2015

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Brendan O'Hara Portrait Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute) (SNP)
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May we have a statement or a debate in Government time on why, at a time when this Government can find £100,000 million for Trident renewal, more than 1,500 RAF service personnel will lose their jobs over the next five years, further undermining our conventional defences?

Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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Where we and the SNP differ is that in an increasingly unstable world, with a whole variety of new challenges, this does not seem to be a moment to scrap our nuclear deterrent. That is a point of difference and a point of principle between us, but Government Members stand by what we believe in.