Poulter – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Poulter on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has for the future military capacity of Wattisham Airbase.

Harriett Baldwin

The estate optimisation strategy aims to provide a more efficient and better quality Defence estate to support our Armed Forces, which will be fit for purpose for future generations.

This long-term, detailed work seeks to identify a rationalised Defence estate which more appropriately meets the needs of our Armed Forces by being of better quality, more cost effective and more efficient, as well as 30% smaller overall, by 2040.

No decision about the future of individual sites has been made at this point, other than those that have been previously announced