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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 23 March 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Adam Ingram.


Territorial Army Rebalancing

Statement on the Territorial Army.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
444 c426-38 
Session
2005-06
Department
Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Adam Ingram | 444 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Gentleman, but his last comment was silly. We are dealing with serious matters. I...
Lord Beamish | 444 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and especially the announcement on the new Royal Engineer regiment that will...
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Julian Brazier | 444 c435 (Link to this contribution) The Government have done quite well over the past few years by ensuring that most deployments by Ter...
Adam Ingram | 444 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) As ever, I bow to the historical wisdom of the hon. Gentleman. I am not going back to the SDR becaus...
Keith Simpson | 444 c434 (Link to this contribution) The Minister entitled his short statement ““TA Rebalancing””. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Ald...
Adam Ingram | 444 c434 (Link to this contribution) I am fully conscious of that work and witnessed during the early stages of Telic 1—just after the wa...
Tobias Ellwood | 444 c436 (Link to this contribution) Every time the Minister makes a statement in the Chamber about the TA, it is accompanied somewhere, ...
Adam Ingram | 444 c435-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution and the representations that he and his local author...
Alistair Carmichael | 444 c435 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the news that the Minister brings about the Lerwick unit. He is right to say that it would...
Adam Ingram | 444 c435 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for coming to see me. The meeting was part of my examination of the matte...
Adam Ingram | 444 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) He has. Obviously in the Ministry of Defence, we are in a cost-cutting mood and we cannot quite matc...
Speaker | 444 c433 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to those hon. Members who are remaining to put questions to the Minister that if we...
Adam Ingram | 444 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) Given the end of the cold war, we considered what the post-cold war structure should be, as part of ...
David Leslie Taylor | 444 c431 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right to refer to the professionalism, adaptability, courage and tenacity of the TA,...
Adam Ingram | 444 c431 (Link to this contribution) Well, it is 10 years on, and we are recovering very significantly from the legacy that we inherited....
Adam Ingram | 444 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) That is an issue. My hon. Friend is aware of the extensive support mechanisms that we have put in pl...
Adam Ingram | 444 c432 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. He probably has a faxed copy of the tables, which is wh...
Gerald Howarth | 444 c428-30 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the Minister for providing me with an advance copy of the statement. I join him in co...
Adam Ingram | 444 c430 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s reply was like the curate’s egg in that he welcomed some parts of the statement...
Adam Ingram | 444 c426-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the Territorial Army, bu...
Adam Ingram | 444 c438 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will appreciate the fact that I have written to 92 Members, and th...
Bob Russell | 444 c437 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the comments about the effectiveness of the Territorial Army, including comments by hon. M...
Mark Francois | 444 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) So as not to disappoint the Minister, may I express concern about further reductions in the TA infan...
Adam Ingram | 444 c437 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome. This is an unusual occasion, as I do not think anyone fa...
Alistair Carmichael | 444 c435 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the news that the Minister brings about the Lerwick unit. He is right to say that it would...
Nick Harvey | 444 c432 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the liberation of Norman Kember and his associates and pay tribute to the professionalism ...
Subjects
Army Deployment Staff Training Reserve forces Reorganisation Territorial Army
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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