To ask Her Majesty's Government what factors influenced the decision to delay and scale back the proposals to concentrate military units in Devon and Somerset in a single large-scale garrison.
Answered on
29 April 2019
In November 2016 the Ministry of Defence outlined the Department's intention to create an estate optimised to support Defence capabilities and communities; these plans were, however, subject to further, detailed assessment work.
Although this work on future basing options for a number of Royal Marines sites will not report until 2021, work to date has confirmed that the current locations and supporting infrastructure arrangements for RMB Chivenor and Norton Manor Camp are fundamentally sound and best to serve the future Royal Marines requirements.