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Territorial Army Rebalancing

I endorse the comments about the effectiveness of the Territorial Army, including comments by hon. Members with whom I recently visited Basra. I welcome the Minister’s statement about establishing a military provost staff company in Colchester, although I trust that that will not be followed by reductions in the signallers there. I welcome, too, the formation of the Army Air Corps regiment at Bury St. Edmunds, which will be welcomed across East Anglia. However, the Minister is rather modest, because if I have read the ““Summary of Structural Change by Arm”” correctly, an area medical squadron is to be established in my constituency. What numbers will be recruited, both to the military provost staff company and to the area medical squadron?