Labour warning over security at MoD’s nuclear bases

SECURITY should not be cut at the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear facilities, Labour has warned.

Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said that, while the MoD planned to cut the number of military police by 50 per cent, it was essential there was no reduction in officers guarding the sites at Faslane and Coulport.

Mr Murphy asked defence minister Andrew Robathan in the Commons yesterday: “Will you guarantee that there will be no cut in MoD police numbers at the most sensitive of bases, particularly at Faslane and Coulport?”

But Mr Robathan gave no such guarantee, and said the MoD was looking at ways to “organise things better”.

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