Russia: Vostok 2018 Military Exercises

Earl Attlee Excerpts

Thursday 13th September 2018 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Goldie]

My Lords, as I made clear earlier this week, the Government take very seriously their obligations to keep this country secure and safe and have an effective and workable defence capability. That, of course, is what the first step of the strategic defence review was all about, and it is certainly what the Modernising Defence Programme is about. That programme, I remind noble Lords, is to make sure that defence is configured to address the intensifying and more complex threats that we and our allies face, and to put UK defence on an enduringly affordable footing so that our contribution to national security and prosperity is sustainable over the long term.

[Earl Attlee (Con)]

My Lords, when was the last time the British Army deployed a largely fully formed and supported division into the field for movement and manoeuvre training?

[Baroness Goldie]

My noble friend asks a specific question to which I do not have any answer, specific or otherwise, so I shall have to undertake to write to him.