Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's policy is on NATO Transformation.

Mike Penning, Minister of State for the Armed Forces: A key commitment from the Wales Summit in 2014 is NATO Adaptation, which builds on the work of Allied Command (Transformation).

Government Ministers regularly discuss the need to reform NATO with their counterparts, and did so again at the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting on 15/16 February 2017.

The UK continues to push NATO to become a genuinely adaptable Alliance that is less bureaucratic, faster and better at making decisions, and is able to respond more effectively to a wide range of threats, including cyber, hybrid, and international terrorism.

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