defence

SNP Westminster Leader and Defence Spokesperson, Angus Robertson MP said the UK Government's Green Paper on the Future of Defence Spending 'misses the point'.

Responding to reports that Gordon Brown has refused to review the 1994 Chinook Helicopter Crash, SNP Defence Spokesperson Angus Robertson has said the families ‘deserve to know the full facts'.

The UK Government has confirmed that it is to cut one of the few conventional vessels based in Scotland.

SNP Westminster Leader and Defence Spokesperson Angus Robertson MP has hit out at the MoD after fresh evidence emerged suggesting the Mull of Kintyre Chinook disaster may have been caused by a computer fault, and not human error.

Reports that the UK Government are planning huge cuts in RAF manpower, aircraft and bases, have been condemned by SNP Westminster leader and Defence spokesperson Angus Robertson MP.

The SNP called on the UK Government to get behind the new forces commander – and put an end to the Labour smear campaign which had been directed at his predecessor.

The UK Government faces demands to immediately publish the Gray dossier on defence procurement after a Sunday newspaper published details of the suppressed report which reveals that Ministry of Defence systems for buying new equipment are so inefficient they are "harming our ability…to conduct difficult current operations.”

As the consultation closes over the future of 125 defence jobs at a rocket testing facility and its associated sites in the Hebrides, Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil has appealed to UK Government to take account of the social and economic consequences of the job loses.

The UK Labour Government is under fire over official Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures which reveal that 9,500 Scottish defence jobs have been lost since Labour came to power.

The SNP have called on the Defence Secretary to clarify whether the Ministry of Defence is set to drop its legal bid to cut the compensation paid to wounded soldiers’ after his Ministerial aide kept his job after branding the action ‘bonkers’ and said it should be abandoned – raising the prospect of a climbdown.