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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 16 October 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Browne of Ladyton. The answering member was Liam Fox.

Defence Policy

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on defence policy.

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464 c702-99 
Session
2006-07
Department
Ministry of Defence
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House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c704 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) The first point that I make to the hon. Gentleman—and others in his party who constantly look for co...
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Tobias Ellwood | 464 c704 (Link to this contribution) I have just returned from Afghanistan, and I find myself blaming the United Nations for not co-ordin...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c704 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can make a speech if he wants to. I am sure that other hon. Members will want to ...
Nicholas Winterton | 464 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) Most people in this country believe that our armed forces are here to act for the security of our st...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman recently visited Afghanistan, and I am still examining the interestin...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c703 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Secretary of State will forgive me for conveying the sentiment of many in the armed ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will join me in expressing condolences to the family and friends of L...
Denis MacShane | 464 c712 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the country that has lost the most men in the Afghan conflict is Pakistan. More than 800 ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c713 (Link to this contribution) We could not be closer. Knowing the hon. Gentleman’s interest in Iraq, I am sure that he will have p...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c713 (Link to this contribution) At the time of the invasion, British military forces comprised some 30 per cent. of the UN mandated ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c710-1 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. I do not wish to compete with the hon. Gentleman as a cheerleader for the Territor...
Julian Brazier | 464 c710 (Link to this contribution) I do not mean to make an excessively partisan point, but one of the parts of the Territorial Army th...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly now aware of such reports, but there is not a jot of truth in them. My hon. Friend ou...
Peter Kilfoyle | 464 c711 (Link to this contribution) Although I take issue with the Secretary of State on the wisdom of our continued presence in Afghani...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c709-10 (Link to this contribution) On the basis of my experience—particularly in Afghanistan, but also in Iraq—and my observation of ot...
Julian Brazier | 464 c709 (Link to this contribution) In reply to an earlier intervention, the Secretary of State made the point that in Afghanistan the U...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c708-9 (Link to this contribution) We will not help to encourage others—which I do a great deal—to become involved and to develop their...
Liam Fox | 464 c708 (Link to this contribution) This week the EU announced its 3,000-man peacekeeping mission to Chad. No one suggests that that is ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks for everybody in the House when he makes a plea for the plight of the people o...
David Drew | 464 c707 (Link to this contribution) I wish to raise the issue of Darfur. We are talking about being discriminating, but there is no grea...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c707 (Link to this contribution) I intend to come to a passage later in my speech that is devoted to Afghanistan. I seem to have trig...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c707 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts her argument clearly. Enabling people in countries such as Afghanistan to enjoy ...
Kali Mountford | 464 c706-7 (Link to this contribution) Is it not important that we remember that such actions must be in our mutual interests? Does my righ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c706 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we should be discriminating about where we deploy our troops, and I believe that we hav...
Liam Fox | 464 c717-8 (Link to this contribution) When the Government have the courage to face the voters and call an election, we will know what spen...
Chris Bryant | 464 c718 (Link to this contribution) This is not good enough. The hon. Gentleman started his speech by saying that the present contributi...
Liam Fox | 464 c718 (Link to this contribution) Let me go back to what the former Prime Minister said before the 1997 election:"““By 1999 defence sp...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c718 (Link to this contribution) I want to give my hon. Friend maximum support in resisting all the rubbish that is being thrown at h...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) That is a classic example of the sort of thing that I was talking about. Based on absolutely no rese...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says, ““Good.”” Perhaps he will now explain the basis on which he made the assert...
Liam Fox | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that those operational bonuses will apply, because those issues have been raised with...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman now says to the House that he was asked to inquire. Why did he choose to inquire ...
Liam Fox | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) Excuse me, but I thought that the purpose of the House of Commons was for us to be able to question ...
Liam Fox | 464 c714 (Link to this contribution) No debate about international terrorism would be complete without considering the question of Iran. ...
Chris Bryant | 464 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) In the summer, quite a few people argued that if we drew down our troops from Basra palace and hande...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) I speak advisedly, but if the hon. Gentleman had been in the Chamber for the beginning of my speech,...
Liam Fox | 464 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) May I fully associate myself and the Conservative party with the praise for the courage, professiona...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c715 (Link to this contribution) The British Government could not make clearer their position in relation to Iran’s ambition to be a ...
Lembit Opik | 464 c715 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has given a comprehensive analysis of the state of play in terms of defence. ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c717 (Link to this contribution) There was a much less complicated answer to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Nort...
Lord Beamish | 464 c717 (Link to this contribution) I have always argued for an increase in defence spending. What figure would the hon. Gentleman put o...
Liam Fox | 464 c717 (Link to this contribution) We would love to have had a widespread debate on this issue in a general election—if only the Govern...
Liam Fox | 464 c724-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is better placed to answer that than I am, but the experience so far is that ...
Chris Bryant | 464 c725 (Link to this contribution) I wholly agree with the hon. Gentleman in that I do not want Iran to develop a nuclear capacity, whi...
Liam Fox | 464 c726-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand and sympathise with the importance of the hon. Gentleman’s question, but if we get into...
Ann Winterton | 464 c722-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. My point was about the nursing situation in field hospitals. My hon...
Liam Fox | 464 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) When I was a junior doctor, I learned never to argue at all with nurses and I entirely accept my hon...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c724 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to agree with that part of the hon. Gentleman’s speech. He might find the answer to his q...
Liam Fox | 464 c724 (Link to this contribution) It would be nice to think that we could talk about that in the past tense, but we gave a commitment ...
Bruce George | 464 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) No, let me first outline what I am going to say. If the Opposition want to demonstrate that they ar...
Lord Benyon | 464 c727 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Davies of Stamford | 464 c722 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it not a tradition of this House that a Member who mak...
Speaker | 464 c722 (Link to this contribution) I have been in the Chair listening very carefully, and no false assertion has been made. I would adv...
Lord Beamish | 464 c721 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making me very angry. I have visited Selly Oak, and it is nothing short of sha...
Liam Fox | 464 c721 (Link to this contribution) Now the hon. Gentleman is making me angry. I am not in any way denigrating the quality of the staff;...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to clarify that canard as well. He is not compar...
Liam Fox | 464 c721 (Link to this contribution) What the public will see is this: for losing limbs or major organs, someone would get a maximum of £...
Speaker | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House must come to order.
Liam Fox | 464 c720 (Link to this contribution) The armed forces compensation scheme has recently received wide publicity, and we welcome the fact t...
Liam Fox | 464 c722 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not need to take lessons on falsehoods when I am standing on the same side of the Hou...
Liam Fox | 464 c722 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. With winter approaching in Afghanistan, and already in some higher-altitude locations,...
Bruce George | 464 c729 (Link to this contribution) We do not know how much the Opposition are going to spend on defence. They are copying the Labour pa...
Adrian Bailey | 464 c729 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend says that we do not know how much the main Opposition party will spend on defen...
Bruce George | 464 c728 (Link to this contribution) We fought a war on two fronts against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. We almost lost that, as a con...
Liam Fox | 464 c728 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in these lessons in the history of expenditure, but when did we last find ourselves ...
Bruce George | 464 c728-9 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State will have noticed that the GDP of this country has grown quite signifi...
Liam Fox | 464 c728 (Link to this contribution) As a historian, what does the right hon. Gentleman make of the fact that the proportion of GDP that ...
Bob Ainsworth | 464 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) Let us stick to the issue that has been raised tonight. Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I have tried, in ...
Bob Blizzard | 464 c799 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Bob Ainsworth | 464 c794-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging debate. I have always been aware of the level of expertise in the House...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c792-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. On resettlement, personnel seeking social housing must not be disadvantaged by thei...
Derek Twigg | 464 c792 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Murrison | 464 c792 (Link to this contribution) It is Battlesbury barracks in Warminster. The hon. Gentleman may wish to pay it a visit. Half the M...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his intervention, but it does not move us much further f...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c791 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the hon. Gentleman has not been listening to the debate. The issue of the false compa...
Bob Ainsworth | 464 c798 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is prepared to defend the hon. Member for Woodspring, I shall give way—and I h...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c798 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has accused the Conservatives of using the armed forces as a political football. That i...
Lord Beamish | 464 c743 (Link to this contribution) I wish that the hon. Lady would do her research, and that she understood what she was talking about ...
Ann Winterton | 464 c743 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says ““rubbish””, but I think that the point was even admitted at the Dispatch Bo...
Lord Touhig | 464 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to an NAO report now. MOD officials appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on 28 ...
Ann Winterton | 464 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I will try to rise above the rather carping nature of the debate. I hope that hon. Members will reco...
Lord Touhig | 464 c739-41 (Link to this contribution) The public will judge the Conservatives’ reaction on that day; I have no doubt that a harsh judgment...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c741 (Link to this contribution) What happened to the repair and maintenance budget in the last financial year? If the right hon. Gen...
Lord Touhig | 464 c739 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the announcement that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made on 8 October on Iraq, w...
Ann Winterton | 464 c739 (Link to this contribution) I was saddened by what the right hon. Gentleman had to say, for the simple reason that I do not thin...
Nick Harvey | 464 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s comments, and with the point that the Committee made. That issue i...
Nick Harvey | 464 c735-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall press on. In Afghanistan, we are involved in a task for the long term and it is incumbe...
Lindsay Hoyle | 464 c737 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we are always the ones taking on the fight, and that only a few c...
Nick Harvey | 464 c737-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree; the hon. Gentleman’s point is well made and I referred to the same thing earlier. The hon. ...
David Hamilton | 464 c738 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Defence Committee, may I suggest that we should be looking at the long-term posit...
Julian Brazier | 464 c734 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain whether he supports the view expressed by the right hon. and learned...
Nick Harvey | 464 c735 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I believe that we are approaching the end of the work that we took on in Iraq. Th...
Julian Brazier | 464 c735 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Bruce George | 464 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) That must have been in the early 1990s. As things proceeded, we realised that the world was a danger...
Nick Harvey | 464 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) I begin by echoing the Secretary of State’s words of condolence and by paying tribute to the superb ...
Robert Flello | 464 c730 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has spoken of snippets and titbits of information. He might be interested to kn...
Bruce George | 464 c730-1 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will say more about that if he decides to speak this evening. We should ...
Lord Benyon | 464 c729 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has considerable experience in the House, whereas I am a relatively new Mem...
Bruce George | 464 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) It would be improper of me to offer advice, but the hon. Gentleman should read a book, sit in on deb...
Lord Beamish | 464 c731 (Link to this contribution) Under his wise leadership and chairmanship. The Committee produced a report on the Bill that became ...
Bruce George | 464 c731-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether to thank my hon. Friend for what he has said, as he is only half proud of what...
Lord Beamish | 464 c731 (Link to this contribution) During the last Parliament I served on the Defence Committee under my right hon. Friend’s—
Bruce George | 464 c729 (Link to this contribution) I do not need to be revived, but I would like to advise the hon. Member for Woodspring, and I will s...
Liam Fox | 464 c732 (Link to this contribution) Correct me if my memory is inaccurate, but did not the Labour Front-Bench team at the time want a bi...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c791 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the Secretary of State.
Derek Twigg | 464 c791 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Murrison | 464 c791 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I do not have enough time. How do Ministers think soldiers feel when they see civil...
Andrew Murrison | 464 c789-91 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard). I enjoy...
Lord Beamish | 464 c786 (Link to this contribution) I have no problem with the Opposition, or anyone in my party, asking the Government difficult questi...
Lord Beamish | 464 c786 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman’s speech, but I am also looking at the expression on ...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being present for the whole time, but I am grateful to be called to contribute t...
Lord Beamish | 464 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. We also need to give thanks to the dedicated NHS nurses who sit up with patients a...
Lord Beamish | 464 c779-81 (Link to this contribution) That contribution is not worth replying to, because I am dealing with the actual facts and the Conse...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c781 (Link to this contribution) To enlighten us further, will the hon. Gentleman share with the House what he feels is the appropria...
Lord Beamish | 464 c781 (Link to this contribution) It is quite easy to travel to Durham. There are at least 10 flights a day to Newcastle and a similar...
Julian Brazier | 464 c781 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was making a thoughtful and interesting speech until that point; it is a great sh...
Lord Beamish | 464 c781-2 (Link to this contribution) We did not, actually; that was voted for by Members of this House, including some on the hon. Gentle...
Ann Winterton | 464 c782 (Link to this contribution) Did the chief executive or the clinical director take any action by writing letters to editors of th...
Lord Beamish | 464 c782 (Link to this contribution) Yes; I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that point. When I asked Miss Moore,"““Have the nati...
Derek Twigg | 464 c782-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that I visit Selly Oak regularly and take a great deal of interest in it gi...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c778 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman always seeks to give a complete picture in speeches to the House. In ...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 464 c775-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I am happy to support his comments. When I was...
Lord Beamish | 464 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) May I start by agreeing with what my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk (Mr. Joyce) said in his conc...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) People have the right to join any regiment or corps that they wish, but we have a target contingent ...
Eric Joyce | 464 c770-1 (Link to this contribution) I have two fairly brief points to make, but, first, I want to make a brief subsidiary point, having ...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c769 (Link to this contribution) The naval bases on the west and east coasts would be maintained because they would be the east and w...
Mark Hendrick | 464 c769 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about a shortfall in the number of troops in Scotland joining Scottish regi...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 464 c773-5 (Link to this contribution) In this debate, I want to consider globalisation—how we can face the challenge that it poses, the ro...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c775 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making an excellent contribution to the debate. Will she join me in congratulating ...
Lord Beamish | 464 c771 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the situation is even worse than he describes? If housing becomes sur...
Eric Joyce | 464 c771-3 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. Indeed, a Patrick Barkham article in The Guardian back in April dealt with...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c768 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention because it allows me to make my point. In the past ...
Eric Joyce | 464 c768 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not trying to have it both ways? He wants the benefit of a critical mass of UK...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c768 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point, but previous answers from the MOD contradict that, particularly when t...
Lord Beamish | 464 c768 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman’s party leader want to add to that? If he carries out his threat to stop...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c766 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been describing what he considers to be a success. I agree with most of what ...
Mark Hendrick | 464 c766 (Link to this contribution) I think there is a decline, to some extent. I speak from experience, because in my constituency I am...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c768 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman therefore saying to the House—and to Scotland and his constituents—that those ...
Lord Beamish | 464 c769 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. Has he visited Faslane or Coulport? It is mind-bogg...
David Hamilton | 464 c761 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would accept, however, that substantial amounts of money are being...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, after hearing my colleague on the Defence Commit...
David Hamilton | 464 c759 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. The lack of understanding disturbed me more than anything. In the two y...
Lord Beamish | 464 c759 (Link to this contribution) Was not it also disturbing that the representatives in the evidence session had no comprehension tha...
David Hamilton | 464 c759 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is obviously trying to score points against the previous Administration in Scotla...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) I have heard that interesting story on several occasions today, and it must be properly addressed. M...
Mark Hendrick | 464 c763-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government are committed to our armed forces, and that is manifested in spending. I will refer t...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the amounts required to bring all the housing stock up to scratch over a long period w...
Bob Ainsworth | 464 c761 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying to make a serious contribution, but he has said a couple of things that...
Bernard Jenkin | 464 c761 (Link to this contribution) I stand to be corrected, but I am informed that at the present rate of refurbishment and improvement...
Julian Brazier | 464 c749 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to discuss defence policy. I want to say a few words about the military c...
Julian Brazier | 464 c750-1 (Link to this contribution) That is not what I am saying—and the hon. Gentleman knows it. I served on the Committee, too, and th...
Lord Beamish | 464 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give this Labour Government some credit? Before the compensation scheme was ...
Julian Brazier | 464 c752-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely, but the fact remains that nobody—including the Conservative and Labour Governmen...
Lindsay Hoyle | 464 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) But we have to remember that our aircraft industry is a world leader. What we should not be doing—th...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c757 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman’s comments, but has he come across complaints from armed forces personnel ...
David Hamilton | 464 c755-7 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George) said earlier that people should not get up and...
Lord Beamish | 464 c758 (Link to this contribution) I, too, attended that evidence session in the Scottish Parliament last week. Was my hon. Friend also...
David Hamilton | 464 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) No, those comments have not been made by any soldier to me. I represent Midlothian and I see the Hig...
David Hamilton | 464 c758 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Indeed, the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Willie Rennie) said during that publ...
Ann Winterton | 464 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who is experienced in such matters, makes a valid point, and I am sure that everyone...
Julian Brazier | 464 c744 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way during her interesting and original speech. Does she ...
Ann Winterton | 464 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman expresses his opinion. We will have to wait and see who is right. I hope that we ...
Ann Winterton | 464 c746 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has probably misunderstood; I was not knocking the Eurofighter, but saying that i...
Gavin Strang | 464 c745 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Congleton (Ann Winterton) will understand if I do not take up much of what she s...
Ann Winterton | 464 c745 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is nodding; he will remember that what happened in Dhofar province reinforces...
Gavin Strang | 464 c748-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course I realise that, just as I realise that a high proportion of the crime in this country is r...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c748 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about two aspects of my right hon. Friend’s remarks. First, as I made perfectly clear...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right, to the extent that none of the challenges, difficulties, conflicts an...
Bruce George | 464 c727 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, you got your retaliation in first, so I am constrained in the language that I ...
Mark Hendrick | 464 c735 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Liam Fox | 464 c719 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend must not allow his common sense to get in the way of the Government’s red herring, or...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 464 c714 (Link to this contribution) I can, of course, confirm that exactly the opposite has happened—thus far. I make that qualification...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c786 (Link to this contribution) It is a question of opportunity cost; what is the cost of not responding to our enemies? The greater...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c766-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging debate. I shall touch on only three areas of defence policy. I apologis...
Stewart Hosie | 464 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. It is important to remember that Scotland has fewer naval and air force bases than a...
Gavin Strang | 464 c746-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not go down that road, but I trust that we have the hon. Lady’s support for tranche 3. Durin...
Gavin Strang | 464 c724 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but can the hon. Gentleman envisage a situation where he would want to increase the British...
Mark Pritchard | 464 c786-9 (Link to this contribution) Shall we go back to the Iraq war and the dodgy dossier? We have not got time. I take the hon. Gentle...
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Armed forces Defence Deployment Defence equipment Iraq Recruitment Peacekeeping operations Ministry of Defence Afghanistan NATO
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