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Defence Reform Bill

My proposal does not mention the Regulars because the Bill is about the Reservists. A couple of hon. Members have suggested motives for these proposals which I cannot agree with. The bottom line is that most of those Regulars—this is my understanding and I am willing to stand corrected—have been disbanded in any case. Let me be clear about what my proposal says, because motives that I do not take kindly to are being attributed to it. The proposal is about saying that these plans are not working and we should take time, if only a brief amount of it, to scrutinise them properly to check for their viability and cost-effectiveness. That is the right thing to do—