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Armed Forces Redundancies
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Mr Robathan
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question, because he is absolutely right. The National Security Council came up with various scenarios, including operations such as the one in which we are currently partaking in Libya.
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
Will the Minister say how many people in the armed forces will be made compulsorily redundant?
Mr Robathan
All 11,000 redundancies are termed compulsory. We are hoping that we will receive volunteers for as many posts as possible, but we are not just going to accept volunteers because some of them will be people we wish to keep, so we will not want them to enter the redundancy programme.