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Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 7 December 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Corbyn. The answering member was Peter Luff.

Trident

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the cost of Trident nuclear missile and submarine replacement.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
537 c140-50WH 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Peter Luff | 537 c148-50WH (Link to this contribution) It is my intention to do that, but I am conscious of the time. I hope to be able to answer all the h...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c148WH (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure why the Minister is getting into such a bad mood about Parliament asking questio...
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Peter Luff | 537 c145-7WH (Link to this contribution) Mr Gale, without wishing to trivialise this very important subject in any sense, I had intended to b...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c144-5WH (Link to this contribution) Presumably, there were discussions in the MOD about exactly what the terms of the review would be, w...
Peter Luff | 537 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) I note my hon. Friend's powerful argument. I am sure that it will be borne in mind closer to the tim...
Julian Lewis | 537 c147WH (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend the Minister moves on to the question of costs, I want to make a point about t...
Tessa Munt | 537 c144WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will agree that the Minister will have to explain that in that cas...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c143-4WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. One of the facts of life is that for anything to do with nuclear weapons, nuclear equipment,...
Eric Joyce | 537 c144WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that, when the Government committed themselves to a review, they must have...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c144WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. If we do not know the cost, if we do not know what the alternatives are and if we do not...
John McDonnell | 537 c143WH (Link to this contribution) There was a debate in 2007, which arrived at a vote—that is true. However, is it not true that, in e...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c143WH (Link to this contribution) There is a precedent for this debate, which was the full debate that was held four years ago in 2007...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c142WH (Link to this contribution) There is no finer person to be transparent than the hon. Gentleman.
Julian Lewis | 537 c142WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c142WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her point. Not only is she a CND stalwart, but she has great resp...
Caroline Lucas | 537 c142WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the eye-watering figures that he is describing are of concern not...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c141-2WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister shakes his head. It is his head, and he is allowed to shake it, but I hope that when he...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c141WH (Link to this contribution) I know from long experience with CND that nothing to do with CND can be counted as a pecuniary inter...
Tessa Munt | 537 c141WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not having declared that I have membership of CND at Mid Somerset level and I am vic...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c140WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that you are chairing the debate, Mr Gale, and that we have secured it. I regret that i...
Tessa Munt | 537 c140-1WH (Link to this contribution) As a Liberal Democrat, I remain absolutely committed to my belief that this is a ludicrous waste of ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c140WH (Link to this contribution) I would be happier if we killed off the whole project straight away—but I suspect that that might no...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c141WH (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Lady is boiling with rage. I, too, am boiling with rage, so we will boil ...
Julian Lewis | 537 c142-3WH (Link to this contribution) I know that I am going to get one shot at this, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for his great courtes...
Julian Huppert | 537 c140WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this much needed debate. He talked about the 2016 main...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c141WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention and the hon. Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) for his. T...
Subjects
Finance Nuclear weapons Trident
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