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UK Space Policy

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

439 c417-40WH 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department of Trade and Industry

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 439 c427WH (Link to this contribution) (in the Chair): Before calling the remaining two speakers, I remind hon. Members that I intend to be...

Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 439 c426-7WH (Link to this contribution) : I hesitate to say that I agree with the hon. Lady, but it is good that we have cross-party consens...

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Ashok Kumar | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Nigel Evans | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : No. We want to focus attention on the fact that the European Space Agency ministerial meeting is c...

Nigel Evans | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : No. The hon. Gentleman's party has been in power for eight years. I do not want to make this debat...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c426WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech and I agree with every word that she utters, so I will...

Nigel Evans | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : No, I will not give way. As far as space technology is concerned, we have advanced in the past eig...

Jo Swinson | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman join me in congratulating Glasgow on securing the international astronauti...

Nigel Evans | 439 c423-4WH (Link to this contribution) : I congratulate Glasgow, of course. It is tremendous that all parts of the United Kingdom should ge...

Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 439 c424-6WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, am a member of the all-party space group. Why I should want to become a member was a source ...

Nigel Evans | 439 c421-2WH (Link to this contribution) : It is embarrassing. I am looking at the tables showing what other countries are doing. We know abo...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c421WH (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that we spend about £195 million a year on civil sp...

Nigel Evans | 439 c420-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Olner) on securing the debate. As he said, it is im...

Bill Olner | 439 c420WH (Link to this contribution) The amount of intelligence and skill that we have put up in the skies to be able best to monitor som...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c422-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman. Does he not recognise that the Government have publi...

Nigel Evans | 439 c423WH (Link to this contribution) : I will contest the figures with the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Member for Nuneaton led the debate, a...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c422WH (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend agree that it would also be interesting to hear from the Minister what progres...

Nigel Evans | 439 c422WH (Link to this contribution) : The attitude in this country to science, and scientists and physicists, must change. I hope that t...

Ian Taylor | 439 c422WH (Link to this contribution) : There is the prospect of a Dutch satellite that will gulp up debris. I believe that that project i...

Nigel Evans | 439 c422WH (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend makes an important point about the project being commercially driven. There is a gr...

Bill Olner | 439 c419WH (Link to this contribution) : I did not hear that intervention on the Minister last night, but I assume that he is more au fait ...

Bill Olner | 439 c419-20WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Lady makes an important point, which I was going to stress later: it is no good the Gover...

Jo Swinson | 439 c419WH (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. He mentioned the i...

Ian Taylor | 439 c420WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend—I use that phrase as the hon. Gentleman is my co-chairman on the all...

Bill Olner | 439 c417-8WH (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as the joint chair of the all-party group on space, which has the support of n...

Nigel Evans | 439 c418WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that if the Government were to increase that money, it would be not ex...

Bill Olner | 439 c418WH (Link to this contribution) : Yes. There is always a semantic difference about whether funding is an investment or a cost. Money...

Bill Olner | 439 c418-9WH (Link to this contribution) : Yes, there is some space litter up there, and we probably need to pay attention to it. However, my...

Alan Meale | 439 c418WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on his speech about a very important subject. Although he calls for va...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c419WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for his long interest and expertise in the space sector. Does he...

Malcolm Wicks | 439 c438-40WH (Link to this contribution) : If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I need to make a number of other comments in response to the de...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c431WH (Link to this contribution) : As the hon. Gentleman has chosen a party political platform, perhaps he would acknowledge that the...

Alan Reid | 439 c432-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Olner) on securing this debate on the exciting subj...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c431-2WH (Link to this contribution) : I am happy to make such acknowledgements and I was not slinging things. The Nietzschean picture of...

Alan Reid | 439 c433-4WH (Link to this contribution) : I agree. As I was saying, we should not allow that failure to put us off taking risks. It is impor...

Nigel Evans | 439 c433WH (Link to this contribution) : We talked about the failure in that case, but Mars Express—we are involved on three of the instrum...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c434WH (Link to this contribution) : Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he does not believe the figures that POST has produced?

Ian Taylor | 439 c434WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my co-chairman on the all-party group on space, the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. O...

Ian Taylor | 439 c434-7WH (Link to this contribution) : That intervention was pretty infantile, if I may say so. I was saying that the space budget during...

Malcolm Wicks | 439 c437-8WH (Link to this contribution) : We have had an extremely well-informed debate. I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for ...

Alan Meale | 439 c438WH (Link to this contribution) : Before the Minister leaves the international scene, will he comment on what is happening with the ...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c429-30WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for being late for the debate; I was attending a seminar on the global science and innov...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c428-9WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman takes the words out of my mouth. I am certainly not laying the blame at the doo...

Bill Olner | 439 c428WH (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Lady agree that we are in danger of missing a golden opportunity, because Department...

Cheryl Gillan | 439 c427-8WH (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to keep the Chamber for long. I am delighted that the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. ...

Nigel Evans | 439 c430WH (Link to this contribution) : I wonder why the hon. Gentleman thinks that the French and the Germans spend so much more than we ...

Ashok Kumar | 439 c430-1WH (Link to this contribution) : I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but we should remember the base from which we started, and where ...

Nigel Evans | 439 c430WH (Link to this contribution) : Ribble Valley.

Ashok Kumar | 439 c430WH (Link to this contribution) : How could I ever forget the famous by-election? We were both part and parcel of it. The hon. Memb...

Subjects

Climate change Disasters Monitoring Satellite communications Spaceflight Space technology

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