Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rosie Cooper and Liam Fox

Monday 8th November 2010 Commons Chamber

[Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)]

T5. Could the Secretary of State share with us his assessment of the impact of service personnel reductions on the UK’s military capability?

[Dr Fox]

We have specifically tasked the armed forces with ensuring that the reductions in military numbers that we have required of them, as a result of the defence review and the budgetary pressures on us, do not impact on Britain’s military capabilities.