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Defence: Spending Review and Aircraft Carriers

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

694 c836-48 

Session

2006-07

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP 07/1810
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Ramsbotham | 694 c846 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like my noble and gallant friend Lord Bramall, I welcome much in the Statement, and I am s...

Earl Attlee | 694 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for repeating the Statement. I remind the House of my intere...

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Lord Drayson | 694 c845-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not agree with the characterisation of the Statement given by the noble Earl. I agree...

Lord Drayson | 694 c843 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for those comments and I pay tribute to his contribution as my pre...

Lord Drayson | 694 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their welcome of the Statement. I will do my utmost to an...

Lord Bach | 694 c842-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as someone involved in the aircraft carrier project for a few years, I congratulate my nob...

Lord Burnett | 694 c844 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government initiated a naval base review because they felt that there was considerable...

Lord Drayson | 694 c844 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right that we have overcapacity in terms of the naval bases—h...

Lord Bramall | 694 c843 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to sound churlish at all, because there is clearly a lot that is very good i...

Lord Drayson | 694 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord will permit me a smile relating to his final sentence. I am sur...

Lord Drayson | 694 c836-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in offering sincere condolences...

Lord Astor of Hever | 694 c838-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. We on these Benches also send our condolences to t...

Lord Chidgey | 694 c840-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add the condolences of these Benches to the families and friends of service personnel wh...

Lord Drayson | 694 c847 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I recognise, as the noble Baroness said, the uncertainty that there has been over these de...

Lord Lyell | 694 c847 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement and for all the help that he has given. I also than...

Lord Drayson | 694 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, briefly, I will do so, and I will also answer a question from the noble Lord, Lord Astor, ...

Lord Drayson | 694 c846 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, not only will we take them into account, but they will be our number one priority. That is...

Lord Dixon | 694 c846 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having served my time as a shipwright and having worked in the shipbuilding industry for 3...

Lord Drayson | 694 c846 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords, substantial parts of the construction of the two aircraft carriers are open to compet...

Baroness Fookes | 694 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I warmly welcome the decision about the aircraft carriers and the ...

Subjects

Armed forces Cost effectiveness Housing International cooperation France Public expenditure Procurement Navy Military bases Ministry of Defence Shipbuilding Rolls-Royce Aircraft carriers Nuclear submarines BAE Systems VT Group Departmental expenditure limits

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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