Defence Capability — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair]

Part of Backbench Business – in Westminster Hall at 3:16 pm on 19 October 2017.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Johnny Mercer Johnny Mercer Conservative, Plymouth, Moor View 3:16, 19 October 2017

I invite the hon. Gentleman to clear something up; he talked a lot about cuts in the military. He knows my position on that. I have advocated on that matter for a long time. However, the debate must be in the realms of honesty. Since April 2016 the money going into defence has been increasing and it is at 2%. It is going up by half a billion pounds a year. I do not understand how that fits in with his narrative of cuts happening all the time. Surely our defences should be dealt with according to threat and capability, rather than with a constant narrative of doing down our armed forces.