Ministerial statement on Monday, 4 December 2006, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Amos.

Nuclear Deterrent

Lords statement on the future of the UK nuclear deterrent.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 687 c976-91
Session: 2006-07
Department: Lord President of the Council
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: The future of the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent.
Monday, 4 December 2006
Command papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Lord Lea of Crondall | 687 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I understand it correctly, Article 6 refers to the need to engage in multilateral negot...; Baroness Amos | 687 c990 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords, we can. If noble Lords look back at what was said in the Statement, they will see tha...; Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 687 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that the Minister has really answered the question that was originally aske...; Baroness Amos | 687 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are continuously engaged in multilateral discussions on this issue. My noble friend wil...; Lord Marlesford | 687 c991 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, accepting that it is—; Baroness Amos | 687 c990-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that I did answer the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer of Sandwell. I said abso...; Baroness Crawley | 687 c991 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry but I am afraid that time is up.; Earl Attlee | 687 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can we afford the expenditure profile of the new deterrent, the carrier system and its air...; Baroness Amos | 687 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the French are doing some modernising of their own. I am not aware of us givin...; Baroness Amos | 687 c988 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend is quite right. I hope that I made it clear that continuous patrolling is ...; Lord Gilbert | 687 c988 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for those of us who believe passionately in the theory of nuclear deterrence and think tha...; Baroness Amos | 687 c987 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am advised that those are subsonic and would be very easy to shoot down.; Lord Cobbold | 687 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, have the Government given consideration to working with the French on the development of t...; Baroness Amos | 687 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend is right in saying that what we are proposing is entirely compatible and c...; Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 687 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too join in the almost-unanimous welcome for this balanced Statement. Will the Lord Pres...; Baroness Amos | 687 c988 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend is quite right. The answer lies partly in the quality of the maintenance p...; Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 687 c987 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it must be right to replace our deterrent, and it has to be right that it is a submarine-b...; Baroness Amos | 687 c987 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that I have not confused the House. What I said in the Statement and in response to...; Lord Craig of Radley | 687 c987 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Statement and the bipartisan approach that it has received in this House and...; Baroness Amos | 687 c986 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the framework within which we are working is the non-proliferation treaty. That framework ...; Lord Archer of Sandwell | 687 c986 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I accept that the Government have a commendable record on reducing the nuclear arsenal in ...; Baroness Amos | 687 c987 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confirm that the Royal Navy Vanguard class of ballistic missile submarine had an origina...; Lord Garden | 687 c986 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for relaying the Statement, an...; Lord Strathclyde | 687 c980-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am immensely grateful to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for repeating the St...; Baroness Amos | 687 c976-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my ri...; Baroness Amos | 687 c984-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall start with the points raised by the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. First, I thank h...; Lord McNally | 687 c982-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Leader of the House for repeating the Statement. As we are putting our consist...; Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 687 c988 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Government on the Statement. This was a central part of our election ma...
Subjects: Nuclear weapons Procurement USA Nuclear submarines Trident
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Nuclear Deterrent

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