Debate on Thursday, 22 November 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Park of Monmouth. The answering member was Baroness Taylor of Bolton.

Armed Forces

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the planning, action, and support required to enable the armed forces to meet the long- and short-term challenges facing them. Motion withdrawn.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 696 c931-1001
Session: 2007-08
Department: Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord Luke | 696 c967-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I first thank my noble friend Lady Park for introducing this impor...; Lord Lyell | 696 c972-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Park for giving us the opportunity today to have a good, leng...; Viscount Slim | 696 c974-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for this very timely debate. With courage and dedication, she h...; Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 696 c943-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Park of Monmouth, for securing this important debat...; Lord Craig of Radley | 696 c937-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on securing this debate and on a powerful and telling sp...; Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 696 c962-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, has spoken with great authority a...; Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 696 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the Minister takes up the suggestion of my noble friend Lord King to invite the Prime M...; Lord King of Bridgwater | 696 c946-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Park on her excellent choice of debate for the Hou...; Baroness Park of Monmouth | 696 c931-7 (Link to this contribution) rose to call attention to the planning, action, and support required to enable the Armed Forces to m...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many other things are happening as well. My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secr...; Lord Chidgey | 696 c999 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for allowing me to clarify one point about the Co...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can assure the House that the Prime Minister takes defence matters very seriously. He ha...; Lord King of Bridgwater | 696 c1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister said that she was concluding, but one further subject received considerable a...; Earl Attlee | 696 c997 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister answer my point about whether there is any budget provision for the main...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c997-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once the UORs are adapted into mainstream equipment, they are dealt with in exactly the sa...; Lord Bramall | 696 c995 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but it would be most helpful, because it is ve...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c993-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on securing the debate. I am sure that she is very grati...; Lord Addington | 696 c988-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am extremely nervous about summing up a debate that has featured quite so much expertise...; Lord Inge | 696 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords I thank the noble Baroness and congratulate her on securing this ve...; Lord King of Bridgwater | 696 c966 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord raises an interesting point. Is it true that only one battalion...; Earl of Sandwich | 696 c979-82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly thank the noble Baroness for this opportunity. I hope the Government Front Bench ...; Lord Ramsbotham | 696 c969-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join all noble Lords who have thanked the noble Baroness, Lady Park, for, and congratula...; Lord Selsdon | 696 c976-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I always like following the noble Viscount, Lord Slim, because he gives me a feeling of su...; Lord Chidgey | 696 c940-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, has made a telling contribution to this debate bas...; Lord Marlesford | 696 c958-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, any speech from my noble friend Lady Park is based on considerable wisdom and experience, ...; Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank | 696 c960-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Park, for this important debate. First, I pay tribu...; Lord Boyce | 696 c949-52 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too welcome this debate. It allows me to pay tribute to all our armed services for the o...; Baroness Park of Monmouth | 696 c1000-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my very brief peroration, I point out to the Minister that both the NAO and the fam...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c997 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, much of the new equipment that we have developed because of problems in the theatre will b...; Lord Boyce | 696 c997 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Baroness will not mind my interrupting her to clarify one point. A n...; Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 696 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have heard people talk about defence inflation, which is what the noble and gallant Lord...; Earl Attlee | 696 c985-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Park of Monmouth for introducing the debate. It is a...; Lord Astor of Hever | 696 c990-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a well established convention in debates on defence at a time when the lives our Arm...; Lord Inge | 696 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot answer the noble Lord specifically. It is a fact that a number of battalions are ...; Lord Gilbert | 696 c982-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like every other Member of your Lordships' House, I am very much in debt to the noble Baro...; Lord Bramall | 696 c954-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that our caring and concerned Ministers at the Ministry of Defence would subscri...
Subjects: Armed forces Defence Deployment Coroners Defence equipment Health services Finance Families Iraq Pay Peacekeeping operations Procurement Staff Private rented housing Training Afghanistan Affordable housing Armed forces covenant
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