Proceeding contribution from Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 23 March 2006. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Territorial Army Rebalancing.
Territorial Army Rebalancing
Every time the Minister makes a statement in the Chamber about the TA, it is accompanied somewhere, no matter how positive it is, by another salami slice and cut to the overall size of the TA. Today is no exception, because we read on page 3 of the statement that we are to lose 900 posts in the Territorial Army. I fully agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) that it is misleading to include members of the Officer Training Corps and the Army Air Corps in the overall figures for the reserve, so will the Minister please correct that? A new police force, or company, is being set up to deal with detainees. What type of detainees will be looked after and for how long will they be kept? Will the new company be going to Guantanamo Bay for preliminary training?
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- 2005-06
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- Army Deployment Staff Training Reserve forces Reorganisation Territorial Army
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