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Defence Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

530 c634-45 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Deposited Paper DEP2011-1064
Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 4 July 2011
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Commander Joint Forces Command
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) We will now proceed to the debate on House of Lords reform. Before I call the Deputy Prime Minister,...

Liam Fox | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the greatest difference between us is that the Labour party tried to bury the Gray report, w...

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Stephen Phillips | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) Like all Conservative Members, I welcome the statement, not least because it deals with so many of t...

Stephen Gilbert | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) Inter-service rivalry and single service lobbying is a key tradition of the British armed forces. Is...

Liam Fox | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Mark Field | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) I share the Secretary of State's unequivocal support for this report. Given the streamlining to whic...

Rehman Chishti | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that he, not the PUS, will be in charge of the defence board?

Liam Fox | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) All parts of the armed forces will be subject to regular and rigorous review. Although, as I have sa...

Matt Hancock | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) During the year for which I have been a member of the Public Accounts Committee, I have often been s...

Liam Fox | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) The single service chiefs will, through the chiefs of staff committee, always be able to have a robu...

Liam Fox | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) I want to end the presumption that those at the centre know better how to micro-manage the services ...

David Rutley | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) In Macclesfield, we are fortunate enough to have many skilled engineers in the military aviation sec...

Bob Russell | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to a ““radical new approach to the management of defence”” and a ““n...

Liam Fox | 530 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, it is not for me to determine the number of Ministers in Her Majesty's Gove...

Julian Brazier | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the statement in the strongest possible way. In particular, I would like to pick out my ri...

Liam Fox | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) It is important, as my hon. Friend says, that all those in key positions remain there to maximise wh...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State started his statement by referring to us our being in the premier league of m...

Liam Fox | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) I refute the idea that the United Kingdom is not among the leading defence powers in the world. We h...

Julian Lewis | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that response from my right hon. Friend. He knows that he is assured of my personal suppor...

Liam Fox | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) But of course this is not a process that is run by the CDS. As part of the defence board, we have pu...

Paul Flynn | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) The statement is welcome because it recognises the waste and inefficiencies arising from rivalries b...

Liam Fox | 530 c642 (Link to this contribution) No one can deny the intellectual logic behind the hon. Gentleman's point, but anyone who has spoken ...

Ben Wallace | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the good report by Lord Levene. It is long overdue and prompts the question of what the La...

Liam Fox | 530 c644 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a good point. I have already mentioned defence intelligence as a key element w...

Liam Fox | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) Some reforms have already been put in place; some are being put in place; and others will be put in ...

Oliver Colvile | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend help me to understand how this can improve our relationships and our discu...

Liam Fox | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) Our discussions at both ministerial and official level are already full and fruitful. This will allo...

Tony Baldry | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) How will these structural changes affect the role of the reserves, who are equally as professional a...

Liam Fox | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) The reserves review, which is headed by the vice-chief of the defence staff and which will report to...

Gordon Birtwistle | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State confident that the Puma helicopter upgrade being carried out overseas is o...

Liam Fox | 530 c643 (Link to this contribution) I confirm that the programme is on track after some early difficulties. Of course, while we would al...

Oliver Heald | 530 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this businesslike statement, particularly the setting up of the joint force command, but w...

Bob Ainsworth | 530 c639 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State and Lord Levene, and I welcome the broad thrust of what is pro...

Liam Fox | 530 c639 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not the Treasury is delighted by the proposals that I have put forward, it has certainly ...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 530 c639 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my right hon. Friend will excuse me if I sound a note of caution. I have lost track of t...

Liam Fox | 530 c639 (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons why I was keen that we should have the Joint Forces Command with its own four-sta...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 530 c639 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what is a truly radical shake-up of the Ministry of Defence, ...

Speaker | 530 c638 (Link to this contribution) Order. Understandably, there is intense interest in this statement, but I have also to protect time ...

Dan Jarvis | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many of the proposals in the report, but should not the reorganisations announced today an...

Liam Fox | 530 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) We have already put in place some of the recommendations, including the defence board, and we have b...

Bob Stewart | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it—perhaps I am wrong—service chiefs lost the right some time ago to go directly to ...

Liam Fox | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) The VCDS leads the reserves review and was a key member of the steering group, so there is no lack o...

Nick Smith | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State tell us more about how these reforms will deter future cyber-attacks?

Speaker | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State should not be quite so hard on himself.

Liam Fox | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that this is the unglamorous but no less necessary part of the business. It might mea...

Bernard Jenkin | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) May I commend my right hon. Friend for getting down to the unglamorous business of how his Departmen...

Liam Fox | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman always fails to point out that across the piece far more people in the defence in...

Angus Robertson | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the advance copy of the Defence Secretary's statement, in which he said that the senior...

Liam Fox | 530 c640 (Link to this contribution) There is no change in the constitutional position under which chiefs of staff—or, indeed, the CDS or...

Liam Fox | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) The specific work on that is currently being done by Bernard Gray but, as I said in the statement, i...

John Glen | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) One of the issues that needs clarification is the practice of individuals being appointed to sensiti...

Jim Murphy | 530 c636-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and Lord Levene and his team for their work in rece...

Liam Fox | 530 c634-6 (Link to this contribution) Statement Last August I asked Lord Levene to undertake a fundamental review of the way in which the ...

Liam Fox | 530 c638 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his broad welcome of the report and its contents. It i...

Liam Fox | 530 c645 (Link to this contribution) Oh, yes. I fully intend to chair both the defence board and the major projects board. I have done so...

Liam Fox | 530 c641 (Link to this contribution) I was keen to discuss at length with Lord Levene how to create a structure within defence that could...

Subjects

Armed forces Career development Public expenditure Officers Ministry of Defence Reorganisation Senior civil servants Chiefs of staff Defence Board Defence Reform Review

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