HC Deb 22 January 1991 vol 184 c175W
15. Mr. Cyril D. Townsend

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the future of the regimental system in the light of future cuts in the size of the British Army.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

As I said during the defence debate last June, the Government believe in the regimental system and are convinced that it must be maintained for the esprit de corps that it brings to our front-line battalions. Regiments may have to be disbanded or amalgamated, but the regimental system will go on.

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