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HANSARDUkraine: Territorial IntegrityMy hon. Friend is right to pay tribute to staff at PJHQ. Both civilian and military staff constantly work around the clock to deliver a whole range of international operations…10 Jan 2022HANSARDFuture Nuclear Deterrent Annual Update 2021On 18 May 2011, the then Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset (Dr Fox), made an oral statement to the House ( Official Report ,…16 Dec 2021HANSARDDeployment of UK Military Engineers to PolandI am today informing the House of the deployment of UK military personnel to Poland to provide assistance to the Polish armed forces. For a number of months Poland, along with…09 Dec 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI have, but of course the Red Book changed in a different year from when our settlement started. The right hon. Gentleman will know that our settlement started a year before…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will update the House on the details and implementation of the Army’s future capabilities, structures and basing. In March I came to the House to…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierDear oh dear! I think the official Opposition are probably inaccurate and probably out-of-date and indeed pose all sorts of questions where the premise is just completely false.…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierMy right hon. Friend, like me, served in regiments that were hollowed out or did not quite do what it said on the tin because of either chronic underfunding or overambition…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his questions. On the Rangers, we envisage that a large proportion of their time will not necessarily be spent with NATO allies. They may…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierThe hon. Gentleman shakes his head. The SNP talks a good game, but when it runs a shipyard it runs it into the ground by the looks of things. We should remember that. On Scottish…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI do not disagree with my right hon. Friend’s observations about the troubled programmes of Ajax and Morpheus. Not knowing that he was going to ask the question, I had a meeting…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierFirst, on what we will see in the hon. Member’s part of the world, we will see one addition. While there are bases that have been reprieved or saved and have gone up in…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI would have stayed in the Army if it had looked like this, but I was in an Army that I think was hollowed out. The equipment did not quite work and the greatest adventure anyone…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierMy right hon. Friend has been a more than doughty campaigner on the regular commissions board. Let me put it this way: for many of us on these Benches, the Army would not be the…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierThe Minister for the Armed Forces will be delighted to hear the prophecy offered. What I can say is that we should and we will do more not only to encourage, but to keep women in…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI understand the hon. Member’s point about the overall size. We will obviously be a more productive Army, but we are also going to use equipment that needs fewer people and crews…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierFirst, I know my hon. Friend is keen in the Parachute Regiment world, and I think there is an enhancement to the Air Assault Brigade, with an extra unit going in there, which is…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierI understand. The hon. Lady will know that Imphal barracks is already designated to close at the end of the decade, but she should also be pleased that the new 19 reserve brigade…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierMy hon. Friend makes an important point. What people want to do is changing, and so too is their own personal resilience; this is a different youth generation from mine, and we…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierThe hon. Lady tempts me to get ahead of the report I have to give first to the Defence Committee. I would not want to eat their sandwiches for them, so all I would say is that I…25 Nov 2021HANSARD Army Restructuring: Future SoldierOne way we want to use the hubs is to have longer tours in places, rather than just a few weeks. In some of our overseas exercises we used to go there, get off the plane, do the…25 Nov 2021