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Opposition day on Monday, 26 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Liam Fox. The answering member was Adam Ingram.

Royal Navy

Royal Navy. Seventh opposition day debate (part 1). Motion negatived on division (288 to 209). Amendment agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c645-87 
Session
2006-07
Department
Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 457 c645 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister. I remind the House that Ba...
Derek Twigg | 457 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, my right hon. Friend the Minister of State attend...
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Speaker | 457 c667 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed an eight-minute limit on Back-Bench sp...
Doug Henderson | 457 c667-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I shall try to curtail my remarks as far as possible. I am one of ...
Paul Keetch | 457 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very thoughtful speech. In relation to what he said about a review of nav...
Nick Harvey | 457 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. He is right; there is a huge procurement pending, and if ...
Mike Hancock | 457 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) I am fortunate to follow the hon. Member for Portsmouth, North (Sarah McCarthy-Fry) and, for that ma...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 457 c671-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I am conscious of the limited time availa...
Nick Harvey | 457 c665 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The reach of the Royal Navy and the work that it is doing in ...
Mike Hancock | 457 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) From a sedentary position, the Minister suggests that the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) an...
Alison Seabeck | 457 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I wholly agree with my hon. Friend and need say no more than that. At the moment, there is a proble...
Julian Lewis | 457 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) If I had to put a subtitle to this debate, it would be ““The Mystery of the Phantom Fleet””. We have...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c679 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Julian Lewis | 457 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid that I will not. The hon. Lady has intervened a great deal, and kept my hon. Friend ...
Derek Twigg | 457 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some strong contributions tonight, and I want to refer to a few of them. My hon. Frie...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c681 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend note as I did that the Opposition took no responsibility for cutting the defence ...
Derek Twigg | 457 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about the collective amnesia of the Opposition. It was inter...
Speaker | 457 c682 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are far too many conversations going on in the Chamber. Members who have been here this...
Alison Seabeck | 457 c675-7 (Link to this contribution) As a Member representing a seat containing the largest naval base in western Europe, I have taken a ...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c677 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the reason why Devonport is able to offer value for money is ...
Nick Harvey | 457 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) The opinion of the Liberal Democrats remains that Britain’s minimum nuclear deterrent should be sust...
Lindsay Hoyle | 457 c665 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it would make more sense to ensure that Caribbean guard ships are...
Adam Ingram | 457 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that there is a real danger that they will close, because those who advocate the br...
Ian Davidson | 457 c662 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister takes into account the degree of risk and uncertainty for the United Kingdom’s nav...
Mike Hancock | 457 c661 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if the Minister could give some indication to people in Portsmouth, Devonport an...
Angus Robertson | 457 c664 (Link to this contribution) On the question of commitments, perhaps we could have some clarity from the Liberal Democrats. At th...
Nick Harvey | 457 c664 (Link to this contribution) Lord Garden said no such thing, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. I thought that I had set out in te...
Nick Harvey | 457 c663 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity that today’s debate affords us to consider the state and the future of the...
Adam Ingram | 457 c661 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend in a moment. I suspect that it will not be a friendly intervention...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c661 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. I wanted to speak about projecting expeditionary force ...
Gary Streeter | 457 c659 (Link to this contribution) We are all very proud indeed of the performance of our Royal Navy all over the world, wherever it is...
Adam Ingram | 457 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to make progress. Key to the future delivery of expeditionary capability for the nex...
Mike Hancock | 457 c660 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Adam Ingram | 457 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) I intend to cover that towards the end of my remarks. I am setting out what our Navy does because t...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c661 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Adam Ingram | 457 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress and get to the point that was raised in the previous intervention. It is cl...
Adam Ingram | 457 c658 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress. We are already in the middle of a major warship building programm...
Ian Davidson | 457 c658 (Link to this contribution) As a Member from a shipbuilding constituency, I am obviously keen that the order for the carriers sh...
Adam Ingram | 457 c658 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend an absolute guarantee: that is precisely what we seek to do. I know that h...
Adam Ingram | 457 c657-8 (Link to this contribution) I have given answer upon answer about the Sea Harriers, which had to be upgraded so that they still ...
Tobias Ellwood | 457 c657 (Link to this contribution) The Minister should not mock my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) for asking ...
Adam Ingram | 457 c657 (Link to this contribution) If I had the answer today, I would love to announce it from the Dispatch Box. We have moved through ...
Adam Ingram | 457 c657 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman participated more in defence debates more, he would understand—
Lord Redwood | 457 c657 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell us when the order will be placed for the two new carriers that the Navy so de...
Adam Ingram | 457 c657 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a precise answer, because the checks are ongoing, but I will say—he...
Adam Ingram | 457 c656 (Link to this contribution) The situation has not changed since the hon. Gentleman was last given the answers to his questions. ...
Adam Ingram | 457 c656 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish navy is coming to the rescue.
Angus Robertson | 457 c656 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to ask the Minister a serious question about the interoperability ...
Liam Fox | 457 c655 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is quite right that the response to the end of the cold war and the diminishing Soviet ...
Adam Ingram | 457 c655 (Link to this contribution) I referred to the evolving analysis that then has to take place. [Interruption.] If right hon. and h...
Mark Francois | 457 c656 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a member of the Rayleigh branch of the Royal Naval Association. The Ministe...
Adam Ingram | 457 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman almost seems to be concluding—in part, he is totally concluding—that that would b...
James Gray | 457 c655 (Link to this contribution) The Minister praises the strategic defence review, as do we on this side. Will he therefore endorse ...
Adam Ingram | 457 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to end and add:"““notes with approval the Government’s ve...
Liam Fox | 457 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) Many of us have received representations on this issue from those serving in the Royal Navy. There a...
Adam Ingram | 457 c654 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, because I am conscious that we have to make progress. I will take one or tw...
Angela Watkinson | 457 c652 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the policy of freezing promotion for lieutenants in the Royal Navy wi...
Liam Fox | 457 c651 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will be delighted when I come to what the current First Sea Lord said before pressure ...
Gary Streeter | 457 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I were elected to this place in 1992. Can he remember a time since then when the ...
Liam Fox | 457 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) These are not my figures but those that the Government produced as a result of the SDR. This is the ...
Liam Fox | 457 c650 (Link to this contribution) I will continue, if I may. When the First Sea Lord talked about the Government taking risks, what d...
Liam Fox | 457 c650 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Lady in the hope, perhaps vain, that we will hear a better point this time.
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 457 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is extremely knowledgeable about naval matters, but he persists in...
Liam Fox | 457 c649 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way again in a moment; I am aware of your strictures about time, Mr. Deputy Speaker. O...
Doug Henderson | 457 c649 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. There might be an argument as to whether th...
Liam Fox | 457 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) There will probably come a point in the not-too-distant future when I will be on the Government Benc...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 457 c648 (Link to this contribution) As a very short-lived former member of the Admiralty Board, I came to today’s debate to voice some s...
Liam Fox | 457 c648 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, although I caution my hon. Friend against applying logic too closely to MOD policy, as he mi...
Julian Brazier | 457 c648 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Does he agree that there is an additional argument if incr...
Liam Fox | 457 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct about the capability. The worry about decreasing from 12 to 10 to eight to...
Tobias Ellwood | 457 c647 (Link to this contribution) I hope to offer a more sensible intervention than the last one. Does my hon. Friend agree that the i...
Liam Fox | 457 c647 (Link to this contribution) I am not responsible for the policies of all sorts of groups outside the House, as the hon. Lady wel...
Liam Fox | 457 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House notes the assessment of the Government’s 1998 Strategic Defence Revie...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 457 c647 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to hear the hon. Gentleman’s comments about reductions to 25. Would he care to com...
Adam Ingram | 457 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said a lot more than just that one statem...
Peter Viggers | 457 c669-71 (Link to this contribution) I respect the record of interest and involvement in this area on the part of the hon. Member for New...
Ian Davidson | 457 c663 (Link to this contribution) If the Liberal Democrats will not commit to the present allocation of resources, can the hon. Gentle...
Adam Ingram | 457 c661 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that a visit by hon. Members would be worth while. Assuming that the ships are not...
Liam Fox | 457 c652 (Link to this contribution) There are times when the Government of the day decide that it is appropriate to reduce the size of t...
Adam Ingram | 457 c654 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. Let me make my point. Let me tell hon. Members what the current First Sea L...
Subjects
Armed forces Deployment Defence equipment Finance Staff Navy Warships Aircraft carriers Submarines
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