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Service Personnel

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

479 c419-33 

Session

2007-08

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

The nation's commitment: cross-government support to the armed forces, their families and veterans.
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Brian Jenkins | 479 c427 (Link to this contribution) First, on behalf of service personnel, their families and their extended families—that is, their par...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's welcome for the paper. He is a member of the Defence Committee and so has...

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Patrick Mercer | 479 c428 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the Secretary of State that these measures are extremely welcome? I wish that the paper...

Lord Beamish | 479 c426 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Command Paper. I have visited troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last three ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend identifies an important point. I pay tribute to him for the lengths that he goes to, ...

Bernard Jenkin | 479 c427 (Link to this contribution) May I echo the welcome that other hon. Members have given this Command Paper? However, will the Secr...

Speaker | 479 c427 (Link to this contribution) Order. We really have not got off to a very good start here.

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c428 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, we have invested significantly in the medical care of our armed forces,...

Speaker | 479 c426 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I appeal for the co-operation and understanding of hon. Members? There is another importa...

Liam Fox | 479 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his statement and for prior sight of it. Conservatives w...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome of this package. I appreciate that he has not had the tim...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c419-22 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the service personnel C...

Willie Rennie | 479 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of the statement and for the statement it...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's warm welcome for the announcements, although he did get to the ““but”...

Linda Gilroy | 479 c429 (Link to this contribution) May I join in warmly welcoming the way in which my right hon. Friend has worked with his colleagues ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c429 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, who has a long track record of interest in and support for families of servi...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c429 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes in welcoming this announcement. This compensati...

Eric Joyce | 479 c430 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's comments on education today are an explicit recognition that many people join...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c430 (Link to this contribution) With the Department for Children, Schools and Families, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State ...

Philip Hollobone | 479 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) Lack of access to NHS dentists is an important point for servicemen, servicewomen and their families...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c430 (Link to this contribution) Practically, what we intend to do, where we have existing facilities—consulting rooms for dentists—i...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who is a member of the Defence Committee, knows that we have been working in this ar...

David Crausby | 479 c428 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his excellent statement to the House, but may I ask him to pay part...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c431 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, in the work that he did on the recognition study that he carried out so effectively ...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 479 c431 (Link to this contribution) Since my right hon. Friend has had his job, he has made a series of decisions substantially enhancin...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c432 (Link to this contribution) The point that my hon. Friend makes is very important to service people. Indeed, this morning, I spo...

Lindsay Hoyle | 479 c432 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, because it gives an absolute commitment on compensation and education, but ...

Robert Smith | 479 c430 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the bringing together of Departments to show this country's appreciation of the ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c431 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's question and I am content to add my own compliments to his compliments to...

David Kidney | 479 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Ministry of Defence for the additions it has made to its own services for armed forces m...

Adrian Bailey | 479 c433 (Link to this contribution) I join other hon. Members in welcoming the statement, which reinforces the status of the armed force...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) I have never heard that suggestion made to me before. ...I will need to check Hansard. I regret it i...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c433 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that we regularly survey the armed forces and beyond them to establish their mo...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c432 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her remarks and, from my own experience of her advocacy on behalf of fami...

Joan Walley | 479 c432 (Link to this contribution) I give my wholehearted support to the statement today, and I thank my right hon. Friend for the cour...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 479 c429 (Link to this contribution) May I warmly welcome the statement by the Secretary of State today? Our service personnel are doing ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c427 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome for the Command Paper. That means something to me, as he ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 479 c430 (Link to this contribution) Part of our undertaking in the plain language of this document is to produce simple guides in plain ...

Andrew Mackinlay | 479 c432 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State revisit the question of requiring local authorities by statute to alloca...

Subjects

Compensation Armed forces Concessions Casualties Housing Families Education Pay Staff Waiting lists Taxation Veterans

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