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Debate between Flick Drummond and Penny Mordaunt
Monday 29th February 2016

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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The tasks that we allocate our personnel are there for operational reasons. That is how we allocate not only the liability of each of our services, but the trades that sit within them.

Flick Drummond Portrait Mrs Flick Drummond (Portsmouth South) (Con)
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Along with many of my colleagues, I also went away during the recess. I had the pleasure of visiting the Falkland Islands. People there expressed concern about leaving the EU from an economic point of view, but will my right hon. Friend confirm, from a national security point of view, that a Conservative Government will always defend the right of the islanders to determine their own future, and reject calls from the Leader of the Opposition for a power-sharing deal?