Security Of Armed Services Property

EDM number 264 in 1992-93, proposed by Llew Smith on 16/06/1992.

That this House notes the loss of three inflatable rubber tanks from the RAF training areas in Mid Wales and the failure to find these tanks for approximately a month since they disappeared; notes that this loss will cost the RAF a sum of ú26,682 to replace them; regards this latest military mishap as one of a series involving the armed forces in expensive security failures, including the bombing of the aircraft carrier `Ark Royal' by mistake on 20th April by Royal Navy jets on exercise, incurring ú60,000 in repair costs; believes that these incidents demonstrate the failure of the armed forces to provide adequate security for their own property and that this undermines the credibility of the national defence strategy to defend the nation against the perceived continued threat from the former Soviet Union; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to initiate an urgent review of the competence of the senior command of the armed forces.

This motion has been signed by a total of 16 MPs.