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Debate on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Beckett. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.

Trident

Debate on a motion to support the Government's decisions, as set out in Cm 6994, to maintain the the UK's minimum strategic nuclear deterrent. Amendment negatived on division (413 to 167). Main question agreed on division (409 to 161).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
458 c298-407, (corrigendum) 794;458 c298-407 
Session
2006-07
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 458 c371 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many hon. Members are still seeking to catch my eye. I have therefore decided to invoke the s...
Speaker | 458 c298 (Link to this contribution) We come now to the main business. It will be helpful to the House to know that all Back Benchers wil...
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Stephen Pound | 458 c315 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman is a distinguished historian, but I am sure that 1907—not...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c314 (Link to this contribution) Of course this debate is about our role in the world at present, which is why I am talking about the...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c315 (Link to this contribution) First, that arms race had not started in 1907. Secondly, we are not talking about an arms race—this ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 458 c315 (Link to this contribution) All Members of the House have enormous respect for the right hon. Gentleman and we do understand the...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) That is not the logic, and it is the reason why we have the non-proliferation treaty, to which we ar...
Nick Raynsford | 458 c314 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has talked about our predecessors of 100 years ago. Does he accept that his...
David Hamilton | 458 c314 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred to events of 100 years ago. Of course, 100 years ago we had the Br...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c314 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point that supplements mine. In the run-up to that great w...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c310 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has made a very powerful speech, and an extremely good case. It was all the mo...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c312-3 (Link to this contribution) All we can go on is the evidence of history. The hot war—to use the hon. Gentleman’s phrase—did not ...
Lembit Opik | 458 c312 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman knows, my background was heavily affected by the cold war; my parents ca...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) I think there is a very strong case for an intensified effort by this country and our allies to stre...
Lord Redwood | 458 c311 (Link to this contribution) If my right hon. Friend were Foreign Secretary now, what additional steps would he take to try to ac...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) People cite the example of Israel having nuclear weapons, although I suspect that if we had been in ...
Norman Baker | 458 c313 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman did not mention Israel in his list of nuclear states. Does he accept that I...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c313 (Link to this contribution) Of course, timing is a very important issue. I agree with the Government’s view, and I shall say why...
Peter Kilfoyle | 458 c313 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is giving a fine exposition of traditional Tory policy in the area under di...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) I am just very pleased that she changed her mind. I do not want to go into all the arguments about t...
Alex Salmond | 458 c310 (Link to this contribution) It is an interesting theory that the Foreign Secretary changed her mind when information became avai...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c309 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my right hon. Friend, but he must be absolutely the last.
John Denham | 458 c309 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Beckett | 458 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to add anything to the words that either my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister or I ...
John Denham | 458 c309 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. On the question of parliamentary scrutiny, I understand that ...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand entirely my hon. Friend’s point, but he knows that I am a former Leader of the House. N...
Clive Betts | 458 c308 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has indicated that we must make a decision now to begin the design process for...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c309 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must get on. I am approaching the end of my speech and many Members wish to contri...
Willie Rennie | 458 c309 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Baroness Beckett | 458 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I must get on. I have been speaking for more than half an hour. The final question is, why must...
Nick Harvey | 458 c326 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that it is a cop-out and the Defence Secretary rises to his feet. If it is a...
Nick Harvey | 458 c324 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way because I am going to move to the second phase of my speech, and I said that I w...
Liam Fox | 458 c324 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman began his speech by saying, and he is reiterating now, that this is not the time ...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 458 c325 (Link to this contribution) I note what the hon. Gentleman says, but is not the reality that to maintain the deterrent that we h...
Nick Harvey | 458 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) We need to establish a policy for Britain and not for British Aerospace. With respect to the hon. La...
Nick Harvey | 458 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) I hope very much that the efforts that are being made towards multilateral disarmament, to which the...
Nick Harvey | 458 c325 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way at the moment; I am laying out our position on this issue. If a week is a long ...
Lord Benyon | 458 c326 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talked about receiving signals, but did he receive the signals given to the Defen...
Nick Harvey | 458 c326 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman misunderstands me. I have not called for any delay in the programme of building. ...
Nigel Griffiths | 458 c319-22 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me in this debate and allowing me to make a personal stat...
Nick Harvey | 458 c322 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) and I commend him f...
Colin Challen | 458 c322-3 (Link to this contribution) Harold Wilson said that a decision delayed is a decision made. Both amendments are a fudge because t...
Nick Harvey | 458 c323 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker has selected one of the amendments, but the two amendments in the names of the right hon...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c318-9 (Link to this contribution) Now that I have been speaking for nearly half an hour, I feel that I should try to conclude, so I wi...
David S Borrow | 458 c323 (Link to this contribution) I understand the difficulty that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues face today. On the assumption...
Nick Harvey | 458 c323-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong in thinking that we are in some difficulty today; we are in no difficult...
Emily Thornberry | 458 c324 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the Liberal Democrats having a clear position, so he presumably does ...
Nick Harvey | 458 c324 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The resolution of the Liberal Democrats was that these initial steps should be taken. However, ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c317 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very strong point, which I want to add to. However, I have not quite fini...
Willie Rennie | 458 c317 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit of progress. I want to leave time for other Members. I hope that the Secretary of...
Lindsay Hoyle | 458 c317 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for being generous with his time. Does he agree that if we do not g...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c318 (Link to this contribution) These decisions are made on a UK basis, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. I do not think that the pe...
Paul Flynn | 458 c318 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Pete Wishart | 458 c318 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the submarines are to be based in Scotland, which has the greates...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c317 (Link to this contribution) Oh well, to be polite I had better give way to a Liberal Democrat.
Willie Rennie | 458 c317 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the cold war earlier. Does he agree with former President Gorbach...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have to say this to my hon. Friend, but that is complete and utter rubbish. We are not...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c306 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Some who have commented on these issues have perhaps been misled—t...
Rob Marris | 458 c305-6 (Link to this contribution) In light of the possible changed threats to this country, does my right hon. Friend agree that wheth...
David Chaytor | 458 c307 (Link to this contribution) If the costs described by my right hon. Friend were exceeded—defence projects have a track record of...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c307 (Link to this contribution) The whole purpose of the scrutiny to which the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh), who chairs ...
James Gray | 458 c307 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 458 c307 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has already pointed to the difficulties of delaying a decision on Trident. Does...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c307 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right and, if I may say so, displays her engineering expertise and unders...
Simon Hughes | 458 c301 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, as the Foreign Secretary rightly said, we are not the biggest player among the nuclear ar...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c300 (Link to this contribution) That depends, of course, on whether the House votes for this motion. If it does, we are committing o...
Andrew Miller | 458 c300 (Link to this contribution) I want to be clear about the point that my right hon. Friend is making in comparison with her answer...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) Yes indeed. I welcome that, as will the whole House. We rely on the Committee chaired by the hon. Ge...
Edward Leigh | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that it is possible to believe in both the independent nuclear det...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh), then I shall make progress.
Baroness Beckett | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that that question was raised with the Prime Minister a few moments a...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary saying that we are making a decision today to keep all our options open, or...
Mike Gapes | 458 c301 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend moves away from the issue of proliferation, can she give the House an as...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c301 (Link to this contribution) Let me first say to the hon. Gentleman that, as I have already pointed out, we have been disarming o...
Gordon Prentice | 458 c298 (Link to this contribution) The United States nuclear posture review that went to Congress in December 2001 estimated that it wo...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c298 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House supports the Government’s decisions, as set out in the White Paper Th...
Nick Palmer | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that all these issues must be subject to review over the years, a...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) The United States submarines are different from our own. They are differently designed, they have a ...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c299 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is aware, we are not making any decision about the warheads in this Parliament, so...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c304 (Link to this contribution) We are working on deterring Iran and North Korea from pursuing their present course of action by oth...
Mark Pritchard | 458 c304 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is absolutely right to say that this is not the time to be giving up our natio...
Jeremy Corbyn | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Baroness Beckett | 458 c304 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to the proportion of the costs in a few moments. I do not think that the two issues tha...
Norman Baker | 458 c304 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that our nuclear weapons have been pointing at nobody since 1994. D...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c304 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I do not intend to get drawn down the path of discussing othe...
Jeremy Corbyn | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for giving way. She will recall that, in the past, our party and other...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely powerful point, and he makes it well. It is indeed the case that t...
David S Borrow | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) Given that all three major parties in the House stood at the last election on a platform of maintain...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c305 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I must make some progress. The time scale we must address is not...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c301 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance without any difficulty. The next step that we hop...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that point later in my remarks. I would simply say to my hon. Friend that that is the...
Richard Burden | 458 c301 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that for the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to be effective, two t...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c302 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, offhand, but I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary will able to give t...
Tobias Ellwood | 458 c302 (Link to this contribution) This debate has come about not because of Trident coming to the end of its shelf life but because th...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that Dr. el-Baradei has of late made a number of remarks about his wish that Government...
Alex Salmond | 458 c302 (Link to this contribution) If what the Foreign Secretary says is internationally accepted, why does Mohamed el-Baradei so funda...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c303 (Link to this contribution) I cannot speculate on those chances, but these are steps that we thought that it was right to take. ...
Lord Redwood | 458 c303 (Link to this contribution) Could the Secretary of State give those of us who desperately want multilateral disarmament to succe...
Andrew George | 458 c303 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not think that it might be dangerous folly to use the expression ““nucle...
Gerald Kaufman | 458 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will allow me, I should like to continue. The only way in which we can give a lea...
Malcolm Rifkind | 458 c345-6 (Link to this contribution) When a Minister resigns on an issue of principle, as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Gri...
Peter Kilfoyle | 458 c346 (Link to this contribution) Where does the amendment mention abandoning Britain’s independent deterrent? Why do Members such as ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 458 c346-7 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, we are debating not just the amendment but the whole principl...
Alex Salmond | 458 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) There have been many fine speeches in this debate so far. The outstanding one was that of the right ...
Lord Touhig | 458 c347-9 (Link to this contribution) Britain is a nuclear power, and has been a nuclear power for 50 years. We became a nuclear power at ...
Alex Salmond | 458 c351 (Link to this contribution) The point is well made, and of course, it is not just Mohamed el-Baradei; Mikhail Gorbachev and Hans...
Adam Price | 458 c350-1 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary, in referring to the remarks by Mohamed el-Baradei, seemed to give the impress...
Alex Salmond | 458 c351 (Link to this contribution) I know that I am on the subject of seriousness, but I cannot resist the hon. Gentleman.
Jim Sheridan | 458 c351 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Bruce George | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not giving way. The hon. Gentleman can make his own speech. What about the argument on opp...
Speaker | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman’s time is up.
Gerald Kaufman | 458 c343 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that nuclear weapons are the greatest menace to life on this planet. Climate chang...
Marquess of Lothian | 458 c341-3 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friends the shadow Ministers know, and as I have indicated over the past six months...
Gavin Strang | 458 c339-41 (Link to this contribution) The House should not forget that the scale of indiscriminate destruction that can be unleashed by a ...
Michael Mates | 458 c336-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a real pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George), who succeeded...
Mohammad Sarwar | 458 c344 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Gerald Kaufman | 458 c344 (Link to this contribution) What I do remember is that the right hon. Lady supported the document before the national executive,...
Clare Short | 458 c344 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will remember that when we on the national executive were persuaded by his poli...
Mohammad Sarwar | 458 c358 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that the biggest threats to this country come from terrorism and climate ...
John McDonnell | 458 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) It is irrefutable that if we look into the 21st century, the major threats are exactly those that my...
John Barrett | 458 c356-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I am just going to give way once. It has been interesting to hear those views and I have read a...
John McDonnell | 458 c357 (Link to this contribution) There is an anachronistic feel about the debate—it is like a debate from another era. Time and the w...
John Barrett | 458 c355 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Chancellor would like to see the dirty deed done for him before he comes into off...
Julian Lewis | 458 c355 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain why, months before the Prime Minister made his statement, the Chance...
John Barrett | 458 c355 (Link to this contribution) It is good to follow a few excellent speeches in the debate. I particularly compliment the right hon...
Speaker | 458 c355 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman’s time is up.
Michael Meacher | 458 c355 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not have the time. I believe that what I have described is a much better route to a safer w...
Graham Stuart | 458 c354 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Meacher | 458 c353 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to see the widespread support that I receive—at least on one side of the House! I would...
Jeremy Wright | 458 c353 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Meacher | 458 c353-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not giving way again. Not only are the warheads designed by the US, but several crucial co...
Michael Meacher | 458 c352 (Link to this contribution) One cannot but draw encouragement from the fact that when occupants of both Front Benches come toget...
Alex Salmond | 458 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) I poke fun because there has been so much inconsistency in this debate, but even the hon. Gentleman ...
Michael Meacher | 458 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I am referring to a cost of £75 billion—I shall discuss that further in a moment—which is roughl...
Chris Mullin | 458 c352 (Link to this contribution) I think that my right hon. Friend meant 6 per cent. of the defence budget, not 6 per cent. of GDP. H...
Jim Sheridan | 458 c351 (Link to this contribution) In the hon. Gentleman’s usual satirical style, he pokes fun at every party that disagrees with him. ...
Stephen Crabb | 458 c371-3 (Link to this contribution) Like a previous speaker, I have received not a single letter from any of my constituents urging me t...
Doug Henderson | 458 c369-71 (Link to this contribution) It is always difficult to participate in debates in which the traditional sides do not necessarily l...
James Gray | 458 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) The debate has been enormously serious, and I approach it with a degree of angst that I have detecte...
Peter Kilfoyle | 458 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the Foreign Secretary, I was never a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Nor have...
Alison Seabeck | 458 c366 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the work force in my constituency at DML and at the dockyard would no...
Linda Gilroy | 458 c366-8 (Link to this contribution) I accept my hon. Friend’s argument and will go on to make it in more detail. Those who argue that t...
Graham Stuart | 458 c359 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that the world would be a safer place if all western democracies unila...
Robert Key | 458 c359-61 (Link to this contribution) At the height of the second world war, my parents’ home in Plymouth was blitzed by the Nazi dictator...
Joan Ruddock | 458 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) Many right hon. and hon. Members tonight have acknowledged that the cold war is over, but the White ...
Clare Short | 458 c363-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make three points in the short time available tonight. First, the decision does not need t...
Joan Ruddock | 458 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry; I would be taking up the time of others. The hon. Gentleman and I have debated many ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c326-7 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time that I have heard a Liberal Democrat spokesman say in a debate that a decisio...
Nick Harvey | 458 c327 (Link to this contribution) What I am saying is that the final approval of Parliament should be given at the point at which the ...
David S Borrow | 458 c327 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Harvey | 458 c327 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have not finished making the point that the non-pro...
Linda Gilroy | 458 c327 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that he has read appendix A of the White Paper, the two information ...
Nick Harvey | 458 c328 (Link to this contribution) I have certainly read those documents, but, as I have just outlined, I remain unconvinced and I beli...
Jon Trickett | 458 c328-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"“...
Jon Trickett | 458 c329 (Link to this contribution) No. We are legally obliged to undertake such discussions by a legally binding treaty. The talks are...
Alex Salmond | 458 c335 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Bruce George | 458 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) Even if I had an extra two hours, I would not concede. The hon. Gentleman can sit down and whinge as...
Alex Salmond | 458 c335 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will get two extra minutes.
Bruce George | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) Provided that the right hon. Gentleman is brief.
Michael Mates | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Bruce George | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) This is not the place to argue the case for a significant increase in defence expenditure, but I hav...
Michael Mates | 458 c336 (Link to this contribution) Of course I shall be brief. The right hon. Gentleman was speaking so frankly that I wanted to give h...
Mohammad Sarwar | 458 c335 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Bruce George | 458 c335 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry I cannot. There is a time limit. We have to retain Trident and replace it with Tride...
Bruce George | 458 c334-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my successor, the right hon. Member for North-East Hampshire (Mr. A...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 458 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) I was a grateful recipient of my hon. Friend’s brilliant essay on nuclear deterrence, which partiall...
Julian Lewis | 458 c333 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves that point, will he consider one other factor? How could this cou...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 458 c333 (Link to this contribution) That is a good question, because the Secretary of State for Defence came before the Select Committee...
Clare Short | 458 c333 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has expertise as the Chair of the Select Committee on Defence. Could the UK...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 458 c332-3 (Link to this contribution) Whatever the merits of the debate, the Royal Navy, Aldermaston and British companies have, with our ...
Jon Trickett | 458 c331 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to take any more interventions, because I am running out of time fast. For those rea...
Jon Trickett | 458 c331 (Link to this contribution) The point stands for itself. I quickly want to move on to address the question of legality. Many le...
Adam Price | 458 c331 (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman as impressed as I was by the detailed evidence provided by independent expert...
Jon Trickett | 458 c330 (Link to this contribution) I accept the point that my right hon. Friend makes in all honesty. However, even this afternoon, peo...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c330 (Link to this contribution) I challenge my hon. Friend, or any other hon. Member, to find one quotation from a Minister that adv...
Jon Trickett | 458 c329 (Link to this contribution) No; I want to make some progress. The amendment, which is in my name and that of many dozens of hon...
Jon Trickett | 458 c330 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a telling point by referring to a Republican President. There is no doubt at al...
Colin Burgon | 458 c330 (Link to this contribution) May I draw to the attention of my hon. Friend a quotation from Eisenhower? He was certainly no sanda...
Jim Devine | 458 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very proud of the Labour Government. My constituency has record employment; we have seen the in...
Lord Benyon | 458 c384-5 (Link to this contribution) In an aside to Conservative Members a few moments ago, the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Sal...
Mohammad Sarwar | 458 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this important debate. In the past three months, I...
Alistair Carmichael | 458 c389-90 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to make a brief contribution to what has been an excellent de...
David Howarth | 458 c388 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tobias Ellwood | 458 c388 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way; time is against us. China was also mentioned. The fact that it destroyed a sat...
Diane Abbott | 458 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) Like many Labour Members, I came of age politically in the era when issues of war and peace, and our...
Tobias Ellwood | 458 c387 (Link to this contribution) This debate has been prompted not by Trident, as the title of the debate would suggest, but because ...
Lord Whitehead | 458 c385 (Link to this contribution) I support the retention of Britain’s nuclear deterrent. I also support the renewal of Britain’s nucl...
Willie Rennie | 458 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) I believe in the deterrence theory. It has worked for decades to protect our country. Although I bel...
Bernard Jenkin | 458 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) The question before the House is very simple. We are being asked whether we want the Government to p...
David Anderson | 458 c376 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman explain exactly which 50 per cent. he would cut?
David S Borrow | 458 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) Twelve months ago, when the Defence Committee started its first inquiry on Trident, I adopted a fair...
Jeremy Wright | 458 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) It would be easy to convince ourselves in this debate that the world would be better off without nuc...
Alison Seabeck | 458 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) Had I been asked to deliver this speech 35 years ago when I was a young, idealistic student, I would...
Alan Reid | 458 c376 (Link to this contribution) Fifty per cent. of the current missiles would be cut. Such a significant reduction to Britain's nucl...
Speaker | 458 c377 (Link to this contribution) Order. The four-minute limit on speeches now operates.
Anne Milton | 458 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief. [Interruption.] I will have to be brief. That is four seconds gone. There is consi...
Speaker | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Salmond must sit down.
Speaker | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) ““Inadvertently misleading”” would be better. We try to work our way around words here, so inadverte...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the support of my right hon. Friends the Members for Walsall, South (Mr. George), ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c396-8 (Link to this contribution) I am also grateful for the support, among others, of the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. ...
Gordon Prentice | 458 c390-1 (Link to this contribution) If our friend the late Robin Cook were here today, he would vote against the Government. My friend t...
Speaker | 458 c391 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the hon. Gentleman not to draw the Speaker into the argument. That is one thing that I ...
Gordon Prentice | 458 c391 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it possible that the Prime Minister could persuade the House of Commons to embark on ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 458 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) It is with great pleasure that I say that I—along with, I suspect, several other Scottish Labour MPs...
Speaker | 458 c392 (Link to this contribution) Order. I shall now call the Front Benchers. I call Dr. Liam Fox.
Liam Fox | 458 c392-5 (Link to this contribution) Our debate has been very good, often thoughtful, and at times subdued. It was started in the best po...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c395 (Link to this contribution) This is a significant day for Parliament. There is no denying that deciding to build a new generatio...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) The second discordant note—I say this with some diffidence—came from the contributions of my hon. Fr...
Speaker | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the Secretary of State is not associating dishonesty with any hon. Member. I do n...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c396 (Link to this contribution) Not dishonesty, but constant assertions of misleading, which could not be made to stand up.
Emily Thornberry | 458 c375 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman therefore agree with what I understand is the Lib Dems’ policy—cutting half ...
Alan Reid | 458 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly support Liberal Democrat policy, and I will come to that later in my speech. If we had ...
Alan Reid | 458 c375 (Link to this contribution) In the current uncertain international situation and all the threats of proliferation, I believe tha...
Peter Kilfoyle | 458 c374-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Secretary of State’s advice, but that was 30 years ago, and time has moved on—...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 458 c374 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with the point about the design life of the submarines. They were ordered to last for th...
Speaker | 458 c298 (Link to this contribution) We come now to the main business. It will be helpful to the House to know that all Back Benchers wil...
David S Borrow | 458 c353 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned his concern for the views of the electorate as against those of the H...
Linda Gilroy | 458 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) seemed to say at the beginning of her s...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 458 c318 (Link to this contribution) For all the reasons that I have given, I do not agree with former President Gorbachev about that. Of...
Jeremy Corbyn | 458 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) When my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) spoke earlier, he outlined the consequen...
John McDonnell | 458 c359 (Link to this contribution) I believe that it would be a more dangerous place if we invested in a new phase of nuclear developme...
Baroness Beckett | 458 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I must get on. The deterrent is not an alternative to diplomacy. We will keep pushing for multi...
Notes
Daily part printing error - in col. 405, insert "Salter, Martin" in the "Ayes".
Subjects
Defence Arms control Expenditure National security Nuclear weapons Procurement Navy Military bases Nuclear disarmament Proliferation Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Terrorism USA Nuclear submarines Trident
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