Warship Construction Programme

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 30 March 2009.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Shadow Minister (Defence) 2:30, 30 March 2009

Then I will bring the question to its conclusion, if I may. Given the vast number of ships constructed over a similar period up to 1939, including 117 destroyers, how can the Minister justify the statements that were made on 12 January?