Part of Defence – in the House of Commons at 5:09 pm on 14 October 1991.
No.
Tackling those problems is at the heart of our proposals for a smaller but better Army.
That is the approach to the size of the Army. If we are to ensure that the Army is smaller but better, the difficulty is how those changes are made. Some units will have to be amalgamated and some corps will have to reduce. How is that to be done? The executive committee of the Army Board—I pay tribute to it—sought as fairly as possible to make proposals that ensure that we have fully manned, fully effective regiments.