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Defence Training Review

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

455 c787-802 

Session

2006-07

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Ministry of Defence: Defence Training
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Written statements
House of Lords

Defence Training
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I am pleased to announce that we will be able to make that significant ...

Viscount Hailsham | 455 c799 (Link to this contribution) RAF Cranwell and RAF Digby are in my constituency, and my constituents work at both bases. Will the ...

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Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) It is logical that the opportunity for such significant investment, and for a centre of excellence f...

Speaker | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is on his third supplementary question.

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman will have to accept that the only answer that I can give at the ...

Lord Cormack | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that the anguish and the dashed hopes caused by the statement tod...

Annette Brooke | 455 c797 (Link to this contribution) Under the circumstances, it is important that the Secretary of State and his Department consider fut...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) The Metrix bid proposes to move the training currently delivered at the Royal School of Signals in B...

Paul Flynn | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State take the first opportunity to ensure that strong, enduring links are bui...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c797 (Link to this contribution) With respect to my hon. Friend, I am not in a position to deal with the detail of the transferabilit...

Julie Morgan | 455 c797 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, and the news will be a huge boost to south Wales, Cardiff and my constituen...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c797 (Link to this contribution) There will be married quarters accommodation. That is part of the package, and the detail of how tha...

Robert Key | 455 c797 (Link to this contribution) Please will the Secretary of State clarify his enigmatic reference to housing? He said that there wi...

Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 455 c796 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the huge economic benefits that will accrue to Wales from today’s decision regarding the...

Mark Pritchard | 455 c796 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that defence training at RAF Cosford will end by 2011. Despite the Secretary of State’s ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c801 (Link to this contribution) I do not have any experience, either as the Chief Secretary to the Treasury or, indeed, as the Secre...

Tobias Ellwood | 455 c801-2 (Link to this contribution) There is a standing joke in the armed forces about RAF Cosford, Blandford and the garrison at Alders...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c802 (Link to this contribution) Independent audit and assessment have confirmed that the MOD is getting progressively better at inve...

Philip Dunne | 455 c802 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State generously congratulated the respective bids on the strong cross-party suppor...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c802 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of repeating myself, of course we will do all that we can to make sure that the best use...

Lembit Opik | 455 c800 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the awarding of the contract to St Athan, which brings a period of uncertainty t...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c800 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s desire to extract those assurances from me, and he will understand...

Robert Walter | 455 c800 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that the Defence College of Communications and Information Syst...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c800 (Link to this contribution) Coming to the House to announce a decision is, in some circumstances, quite restricting. There is a ...

Graham Stuart | 455 c801 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that all training in Leconfield in my constituency will continue, and I congratulate ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c801 (Link to this contribution) I have already indicated in reply to previous questions some of the advantageous characteristics of ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c799 (Link to this contribution) I am not in a position to give the hon. Gentleman that assurance, but I can give him an assurance th...

Mike Penning | 455 c800 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that my only interest is in what is right for the armed forces; I do no...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c799 (Link to this contribution) I think that it will be possible for me to put a copy of the letter on the board within an hour. I k...

Lord Gove | 455 c799 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has in the past been kind enough to acknowledge the superb work done by the leadership ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c787-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the defence training review rat...

Liam Fox | 455 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. May I, too, begin by paying tribute on behalf of t...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c793 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the right hon. Gentleman for his constructive contribution to the process. He reali...

Rob Marris | 455 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) Naturally, I am disappointed by my right hon. Friend’s statement, as Cosford is less than 10 miles f...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c794 (Link to this contribution) I cannot off the top of my head remember the specific dates. There has been continuous communication...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c794-5 (Link to this contribution) The fact that we are in the middle of one of the biggest, if not the biggest, peacetime warship buil...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c795 (Link to this contribution) All those who have been involved in supporting, planning and making the bids have behaved entirely a...

Hywel Williams | 455 c795 (Link to this contribution) In the negotiations on the programme, what regard was taken of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Wales...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c795 (Link to this contribution) There was no negotiation or discussion with anyone outside the parameters of the competition itself....

Speaker | 455 c791 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must remind the House that the purpose of the question session is to put questions to the M...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) I have been invited to pay tribute to people—and the first people I want to pay tribute to are those...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome for the obvious positive advantages that this modernisati...

John P Smith | 455 c791 (Link to this contribution) This is a great, great day for Wales, and it will be remembered for a long time. This is good news n...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) The bidder that has been successful in this competition has proven capabilities, which were confirme...

Bob Russell | 455 c792 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of his statement, and I join him in paying tribute...

Speaker | 455 c792 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am always reluctant to interrupt an hon. Gentleman, but questions must be put. This is not ...

Lord Touhig | 455 c793 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, which will see a world-class training facility at St. At...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c793 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend’s contribution to the process of identifying the appropriate w...

Chris Bryant | 455 c798 (Link to this contribution) There will be an enormously warm reception for the announcement in my constituency and across south ...

Jim Cunningham | 455 c795 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) that many people i...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c796-7 (Link to this contribution) During last week’s Prime Minister’s questions, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister enumerated th...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c795-6 (Link to this contribution) I cannot make it any clearer that I do not anticipate that Cosford will be anything other than well ...

Peter Viggers | 455 c794 (Link to this contribution) What weight has been given to personnel issues? Is the Secretary of State aware that for decades the...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 455 c796 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has approached this difficult issue for him and his constituents entirely appropr...

Hywel Francis | 455 c795 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement and, as Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee, thank ...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 455 c793 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Metrix and St. Athan on winning the bid. As that result means that Bordon in my const...

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Contracts Armed forces Ministry of Defence Training

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