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Proceeding contribution from Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2018. It occurred during Estimates day on Ministry of Defence.

I can say it again and I think I am going to say it a bit later, because it is in my speech: I am happy to confirm that it is not fiscally neutral. That is exactly why we are doing this. I am not saying this just because the Defence Secretary is in his place, but the

first thing he recognised was the fact that the capability review was fiscally neutral and it was prohibiting us. We saw a lot of the stuff that came out in the media and so forth. The challenges that that would have imposed on our armed forces were exactly why there was a requirement to look in more detail at what our armed forces are doing. We now have that opportunity and we have to make the case as to what changes we need, what our defence posture is and how we move forward—

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Reference

636 c620 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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