Future Army 2020

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:03 pm on 6 March 2014.

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Photo of John Woodcock John Woodcock Labour, Barrow and Furness 1:03, 6 March 2014

The Committee has produced a considered report, in whose formation I was privileged to be involved at a very late stage. Does the right hon. Gentleman believe that there is a genuine risk that service numbers may fall so low as to affect our ability to sustain a force which the country needs to retain an expeditionary capability to intervene when necessary, unless there is a longer-term strategic rethink of the way in which we fund defence activities?