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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 18 May 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Liam Fox.

Nuclear Deterrent

Statement on the nuclear deterrent programme.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
528 c351-63 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Julian Lewis | 528 c357 (Link to this contribution) I am really rather worried that my right hon. Friend is in danger of inflicting cruel and unusual pu...
Liam Fox | 528 c357 (Link to this contribution) I rather fear that my hon. Friend is a little too late. Having made my hon. Friend the Minister for ...
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 528 c355 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is well known for his independence and openness of mind, as was shown by his re...
Liam Fox | 528 c356 (Link to this contribution) I have always thought that our independence of mind was why we were sent to the House of Commons in ...
Bob Ainsworth | 528 c356 (Link to this contribution) On costs, does the Secretary of State accept that since the election two things, effectively, have g...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 528 c356 (Link to this contribution) Whatever my right hon. Friend's openness of mind, does he personally agree that the real choice is b...
Liam Fox | 528 c356 (Link to this contribution) I have made it clear on a number of occasions why I believe that having a ballistic, submarine-based...
Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c357 (Link to this contribution) This is a very depressing statement today. First, the Secretary of State gave us no indication of th...
Liam Fox | 528 c357 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the sincerity of the hon. Gentleman's views; I just profoundly disagree with them. As I...
Liam Fox | 528 c359 (Link to this contribution) What I am making clear today is that for the rest of this Parliament we will be going ahead with the...
Liam Fox | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) We have a number of ways of ensuring the protection of our deterrent and, as my hon. Friend says, he...
Angus Robertson | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of his statement. He is well aware that majority o...
Liam Fox | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) This has always been at the heart of the deterrent argument. The whole point is that there is uncert...
Peter Tapsell | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) Without, obviously, asking the Secretary of State to go into any sort of detail, will he make absolu...
Liam Fox | 528 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) There are realities of coalition government that simply have to be faced. As part of the coalition a...
Lord Walney | 528 c359 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that approval of initial gate is overdue and it is good that more work ...
Liam Fox | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) It would be hard to make a less eloquent case for Scottish independence! It is important that we rec...
James Gray | 528 c358 (Link to this contribution) It is of course always open for any political party or any part of any political party to take a dif...
Joan Ruddock | 528 c357-8 (Link to this contribution) Given the phenomenal cost of this weapons system and given that we will commit future generations to...
Sheila Gilmore | 528 c363 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State indicated that the costs between now and 2016 were containable within his bud...
Liam Fox | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) I am just a little stumped by the logic of that. We announced some time ago that we are reducing the...
Jim Shannon | 528 c363 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. He mentioned that the programme was of great national ...
Liam Fox | 528 c363 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is yes, but what I said was that a proportion of the costs that I outlined today, w...
Liam Fox | 528 c363 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, the costs of the British deterrent fall upon the British taxpayer, the costs of the French ...
Stephen Metcalfe | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the statement from my right hon. Friend and his full commitment to future investment...
Liam Fox | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) We will spread the costs wherever we are achieving our objective industrially, which is sustainabili...
Andrew Love | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State seems to believe that simply by reducing the number of weapons, he is complyi...
Nick Smith | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Secretary of State on his decision to introduce a study to assist the Liberal Democr...
Liam Fox | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I wonder how many in the House predicted the Arab spring or wh...
Rehman Chishti | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) May I first welcome the statement by the Secretary of State? Does he agree that the United Kingdom's...
Liam Fox | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) I repeat the answer I have already given to this question. I have already said that the costs are co...
Liam Fox | 528 c359-60 (Link to this contribution) In making reductions that go further than necessary we are, as I have already said, not only within ...
Mike Gapes | 528 c359 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said in a small phrase in his statement that ““if the time is right””, we cou...
James Morris | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that it is difficult for us to predict events that will happen in the fu...
Bob Stewart | 528 c359 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the independent nuclear deterrent is being used all the time be...
Liam Fox | 528 c359 (Link to this contribution) I cannot fault my hon. Friend's logic. He understands the whole basis of the concept of deterrence. ...
Cathy Jamieson | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State understand that many people will find it shocking that we are talking ab...
Liam Fox | 528 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) There is a certain read-across from the Astute to the Trident replacement and the UK should certainl...
Martin Horwood | 528 c361 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the study of alternatives. It would be a shame to waste that initial investment should a s...
Liam Fox | 528 c361 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to a world in which the nuclear threat is being reduced, and we are reducing our nucl...
Liam Fox | 528 c361 (Link to this contribution) The point of our nuclear deterrent is to deter a nuclear threat to the United Kingdom from wherever ...
Robert Halfon | 528 c361 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the main plank of deterrence is mutually assured destruction b...
Thomas Docherty | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has demonstrated that he is a principled and honourable man. Does he therefor...
Liam Fox | 528 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely sure that I grasped the essence of the hon. Gentleman's question. We will have con...
Liam Fox | 528 c360 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that having a nuclear deterrent does anything to diminish the status of the United Ki...
Liam Fox | 528 c351-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on our nuclear deterrent programme. ...
Jim Murphy | 528 c353-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State both for his statement and for providing advance sight of it. I join ...
Liam Fox | 528 c355 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to answer the long list of questions that the right hon. Gentleman asked. I shall...
Liam Fox | 528 c356 (Link to this contribution) The costs of the alternatives review are met from existing departmental budgets and no additional co...
Liam Fox | 528 c362 (Link to this contribution) I have never accepted the arrogant attitude that there is no moral case for a deterrent. I can appre...
Caroline Lucas | 528 c361 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State rightly says that the ““first duty of any Government is to ensure the securit...
Subjects
Costs Nuclear weapons Procurement Nuclear disarmament Safety Nuclear submarines
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