Armed Forces Redundancies

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 12:36 pm on 22 January 2013.

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Photo of Mark Francois Mark Francois The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence 12:36, 22 January 2013

I thank my hon. Friend for the spirit of his question. In the Ministry of Defence we are ultimately responsible for the defence of the realm, but as I hope he and the House will accept, I fully appreciate as someone who has served in uniform the difficult side of what we are having to do today. We completely understand that. We are therefore doing our best to proceed as sympathetically and fairly as possible; but we must configure our armed forces for the defence of our country and achieve the target set out in Future Force 2020.