Strategic Defence Review

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 February 2001.

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Photo of Mr Tony Colman Mr Tony Colman Labour, Putney 12:00, 12 February 2001

Does my right hon. Friend agree that in implementing the SDR, the Government have had to take account of failings in defence equipment brought into service under the previous Government? Is he aware that since the review, and as a result of the significant new investment that this Government have made, those failings are either being repaired or have been repaired, and that the Chief of the Defence Staff himself, Sir Charles Guthrie, has confirmed that British forces are well equipped?