Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the budget of the Ministry of Defence Police and the number of officers it employs on the security of Ministry of Defence sites and assets.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not comment on our security arrangements on national security grounds. We take the security of our people, assets and sites extremely seriously and have robust measures in place to ensure the integrity of the Defence Estate.

These measures are kept under constant review and adjusted according to the threat, including the size and deployment of the Ministry of Defence Police who are just one of several organisations that are utilised to provide security to MOD sites.