I hear what the right hon. Gentleman says about civil servants, but the decision to cut the defence budget by 16% between 2010 and 2015 was not a civil servant’s invention. It was the political decision of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government at the time.
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Lord Beamish
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in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2018.
It occurred during Estimates day on Ministry of Defence.
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