Armed Forces Redundancies Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Redundancies

Rehman Chishti Excerpts
Monday 4th April 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Robathan Portrait Mr Robathan
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UK defence manufacturing is not my responsibility and I have not discussed it with the Secretary of State.

Rehman Chishti Portrait Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham) (Con)
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Will the Minister confirm that the redundancies apply only to regular and not reserve forces?

Lord Robathan Portrait Mr Robathan
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I am confident that the review into reserve forces, “Future Reserves 2020”, will lead to a more robust reserve forces scenario and I look forward to reading it shortly.