{"id":33507,"date":"2013-10-31T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=447c071bf25322e0520c79d8e6e7725e"},"modified":"2013-10-31T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:01:58","slug":"news-story-defence-minister-visits-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33507","title":{"rendered":"News story: Defence minister visits Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Dr Murrison visited <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Lossiemouth, Kinloss Barracks and Fort George yesterday to get a first-hand update on the UK Defence presence in Scotland and to inspect recent infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The visits follows the recent cabinet reshuffle, which saw Dr Murrison being given special responsibility for Scotland and Defence infrastructure within the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>During his visits, <a href=\"\/government\/people\/andrew-murrison\">Dr Murrison<\/a> paid particular attention to the accommodation provided to personnel and their families.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Andrew Murrison is shown aerial munitions\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/17919\/LOS-UNCLASS-20131030-0936-0010.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Dr Andrew Murrison is shown aerial munitions at <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Lossiemouth [Picture: Senior Aircraftman Connor Payne, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the future of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/raflossiemouth\/\"><abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Lossiemouth<\/a> often discussed in the media, Dr Murrison said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence is absolutely committed to the future of <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Lossiemouth, which is why we are investing \u00a385 million on significant infrastructure improvements to the base to accommodate the transfer of the <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr>\u2019s Typhoon force from Leuchars.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Lossiemouth has a key role to play in the defence of this nation and is essential to the large Defence presence in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As one of the United Kingdom\u2019s 3 fast jet main operating bases, it will provide crews at high readiness every hour of every day to police the UK airspace and to intercept unidentified aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for International Security Strategy Dr Andrew Murrison has visited 3 military bases in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}