Toby Perkins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Toby Perkins on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the military threat to the UK posed by Russia.

Penny Mordaunt

As noted in the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, Russia is mid-way through a programme of major investment to modernise and upgrade its military, including its nuclear forces. Its behaviour will continue to be hard to predict, and, though highly unlikely, we cannot rule out the possibility that it may feel tempted to act aggressively against NATO Allies.