Strategic Defence and Security Review Debate
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Owen Smith
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Strategic Defence and Security Review
Owen Smith Excerpts(14 years ago)
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The Prime Minister
Yes, all these decisions should be based on proper military logic—what is right for the armed forces—and that is what we want to do.
Owen Smith (Pontypridd) (Lab)
May I ask the Prime Minister about the important issue of the defence training college at St Athan? As he knows, there will be profound disappointment in both the military and south Wales generally at the cancellation or postponement—I cannot tell from the statement which it is. He has referred several times today to the PFI deal as somehow not being right. What is wrong with it exactly, because we understood it to be providing good value for money?