Proceeding contribution from Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Labour) 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, I am happy to clarify that point. It is not the case that the Ministry of Defence is overspent because of operations. The operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been extremely important. It is significant that the money for those operations has come from the Treasury. It is a big commitment. Around £18 billion has come from the Treasury for operations since 2001, on top of the increasing budget that the Ministry of Defence has had year on year. There are problems with spend, but they are long-term and caused by decisions taken a long time ago, not by operations.
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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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