Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Carol Monaghan Excerpts
Monday 18th February 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Portrait Mark Lancaster
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I refer my hon. Friend to the Royal Air Force advert that aired this week, which almost exclusively featured women, as a clear demonstration that not a single role in the RAF, or, now, in the other services, is not open to them

Carol Monaghan Portrait Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP)
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We have heard this afternoon about Capita’s abject failure in recruitment. While we are haemorrhaging personnel, there are clearly issues in the armed forces that have to be addressed, so will the Secretary of State support the Bill from my hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes), which will be heard on 8 March, to give personnel a voice, through an armed forces representative body with a statutory footing?

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Portrait Mark Lancaster
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I refer the hon. Lady to the answer I gave a few moments ago.