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Defence Policy

I wish to raise that very issue. The subject of today’s debate is the Defence Committee’s fifth report, ““The UK deployment to Afghanistan””. I appreciate that the Minister takes a huge interest and has an obligation to speak, but he is just about to touch on other areas that go far beyond the military interest. Therefore, why do we not see members of the Foreign Office team here and, importantly, the Department for International Development team, given the huge sums of money that are coming from those Departments as well?