Stewart McDonald, MP for Glasgow South, has today published a report “Supporting the armed forces community with the cost of living” to mark Remembrance Day.
The SNP has today published its submission to the UK government’s Integrated Foreign Policy and Defence Review.
After the independent National Audit Office (NAO) rated the Ministry of Defence Equipment plan – which accounts for an incredible 42% of MoD’s total budget – as ‘unaffordable’ for the third year running, Scottish National Party Defence Spokesperson Stewart McDonald today warned the UK was rapidly becoming a ‘hollow force’ unless the UK Government took rapid action to improve its record of good governance and transparency towards the defence budget.
Stewart McDonald MP has quizzed the MoD frontbench on the £80,000 costs it has incurred in its ongoing attempts to privatise the MOD Fire and Rescue service — a move that could see some of the UK’s most sensitive assets being secured by Capita.
Stewart McDonald MP has called on the Prime Minister to ask Donald Trump for Scottish investigators to be given access to a classified intelligence report that may hold the key to whether secret CIA flights broke UK laws against torture.