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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 December 2016.

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Photo of Mike Penning Mike Penning The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence 12:00, 12 December 2016

The whole success of NATO lies in the fact that countries join freely. Mike Gapes is right that the countries he mentioned—Latvia, Estonia and so on—are particularly worried about their protection. It is not like the British Army of the Rhine, which I had the honour and privilege to serve with and which sat there, static, for long periods; what we and our allies in NATO are sending is a significant force to make sure the Russians know that we are serious.