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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 14 October 2009.

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Photo of David Cameron David Cameron Leader of HM Official Opposition, Leader of the Conservative Party 11:30, 14 October 2009

I hope the Prime Minister will look at that specific proposal as well.

We will discuss Afghanistan in a moment, but I want to ask the Prime Minister a specific question about the Territorial Army, an organisation that plays a vital role in our armed forces and has lost many people in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have had a specific case of a serving officer who is due to go to Afghanistan in October 2010. He has been told that of the training days that he should have between now and then, he will be paid for only half of them. Let us be clear about what is happening. Volunteers-they are volunteers, being asked possibly to lay down their life in the service of their country-are not getting the basic training that they need. Does the Prime Minister agree that this is totally unacceptable?