Oral answer to question provided on Monday, 30 March 2009 in the House of Commons, by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour), Ministry of Defence.
Air Trooping Arrangements
- Answer
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. We do keep force levels in Afghanistan under careful review. We have not yet received any request from anyone to supplement existing levels of UK forces in Afghanistan but, as I have said, we keep an open mind about all these matters.
This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Monday, 30 March 2009 by David Leslie Taylor (Labour).
- Question
- NATO's 60th anniversary summit will take place in Strasbourg this week, and it seems probable that President Obama may ask Britain to participate in his planned surge by allocating a further 2,000 troops, thus taking our number to 10,000. How convinced is the Secretary of State that the present trooping arrangements are sufficiently robust, flexible and reliable to handle any such request in a smooth and effective fashion?
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- 2008-09
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- Armed forces Deployment Transport
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