Proceeding contribution from Lord Bramall (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 19 November 2009. It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Queen’s Speech.
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that, while the crisis in Afghanistan continues—it is a crisis, whichever way you look at it—the Ministry of Defence is having its hands tied behind its back by the significant sums that are being withdrawn from it on the basis of an overspend that has been brought about only by having to buy the emergency equipment that is so badly needed at the front?
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- 2009-10
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- House of Lords chamber
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- Defence Armed conflict Commonwealth Climate change Development aid Defence equipment Cluster munitions Human rights European Union Foreign policy Nuclear weapons Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Pakistan Terrorism United Nations Myanmar Afghanistan Sudan Sri Lanka Zimbabwe Middle East Peace negotiations Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Somalia al Qaeda Taliban Treaty of Lisbon
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