In Parliament

Conservative Members have always recognised the importance of being fully engaged in what is happening in Syria and Iraq, and we will contin

We are looking at how to reduce the effect of the Scottish Government’s nat tax on all our service personnel.

Our armed forces are among the very best in the world.

When the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and I met and agreed the terms of reference of the modernising defence programme, we were absolutely

I assure my hon. Friend that we are making good progress. As I said earlier, we are opening this up to public consultation.

We have already had 500 Royal Marines training out in Norway this year, and we look forward to continuing that collaboration going forward.

I was trying to offload various questions on to my ministerial colleagues, Mr Speaker. Sadly, they were not willing to take them.

There have always been traditional tensions within the European Union as to which way it would like to take its role in defence.

We are very happy to discuss how best we can work with our European partners, but we do not want to do anything that diminishes what we agre

At last month’s NATO defence ministerial, we discussed NATO modernisation.