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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 January 2015.

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Photo of Stephen Doughty Stephen Doughty Opposition Whip (Commons) 2:30, 12 January 2015

At this weekend’s Cardiff City game, I saw not only a welcome return to blue, but, intriguingly, that substitutions in the game were being sponsored by the Royal Naval Reserve recruitment programme, no doubt at considerable expense. Will a Minister tell me what the cost of that programme was and how many reserves have been recruited? Given the low levels of reserve recruitment across the UK, what assessment has been made of the efficacy of such expensive advertising programmes?