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RAF Wittering

Asked if it was the case that the Government would work with the RAF to find a way of allowing troops to be able to walk the streets in uniform, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had made his views very clear about the need for all our armed services to be able to wear their uniforms in public, with the support of the public. As Des Browne had said over night, the MoD was investigating, as a matter of urgency, the situation in Wittering and that they would be working closely with Peterborough City Council, local police and the RAF base to work through the problem. Obviously this was something that the Secretary of State for Defence was taking a very close interest in.

Asked if it was the intention that personnel would be able to wear uniforms again in public, the PMS replied that that was very much the situation we hoped to be able to get to.

Asked if the nature of the abuse was known, the PMS replied that she did not have the details of the allegations and that it was not her place to put that type of information into the public domain. Obviously complaints had been made and the situation was now being urgently looked into.

Asked if the Prime Minister would be asking the Ministry of Defence to review its ban on service personnel wearing uniforms whilst travelling through civilian airports, the PMS recommended that the journalist ask the MoD about that particular issue.

Asked if the Government thought that the decision was perhaps an overreaction by the local commander or was this a wider pproblem, the PMS said that she would not get into analysing this particular situation in comparison to what was going on more widely. However, we were looking across the board, particularly through the review that the Prime Minister asked Quentin Davis MP to undertake, into how better we could harness support and improve public understanding of our forces, and that included the public attitude to wearing uniforms.

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