Strength to be set at 10,500, with 250 extra troops in training and continuous recruitment and no further troop cuts for at least 10 years
£250 million extra, including the entire savings from the personnel cuts, to be spent on new equipment over 10 years
A special fund of £5 million a year for the next five years for urgent Air Corps equipment, including three new helicopters this year
The Naval Service to be an eight-ship force with another new vessel to be ordered
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Review and possible reduction in numbers serving overseas
Development of the FCA
Moving the Civil Defence branch of the Department of Defence, involving 30 staff, to Roscrea in the Minister's constituency.