Will my hon. Friend comment on the concern, which I certainly have, that one of the perverse consequence of this legislation might be to encourage the armed forces to do more overseas and foreign recruiting, rather than concentrating on trying to recruit at home? We know that it is difficult to recruit reservists at the moment—the Government are hard up against the issue of how they will meet the target on reservists—but it seems that this could be an agenda whereby we will fill our armed forces with people from overseas instead of from our own country.
Citizenship (Armed Forces) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Christopher Chope
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 13 September 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Citizenship (Armed Forces) Bill.
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