HC Deb 11 April 1983 vol 40 c310W
Mr. Ashley

asked the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply of 23 March, Official Report, c. 434, to the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South, why it is not possible to discriminate between military action and other activities of the armed forces so that it would be permissable for service men to sue for negligence in the latter case but not in the former.

Mr. Wiggin

There is no reasonable and easily definable dividing line between military action and other activities of the armed forces and I do not believe that it would be reasonable to allow a service man to sue for negligence in the latter case but not in the former and to do so would give rise to substantial anomalies.