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Strait of Hormuz: Mine Clearance

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

855 c20 

Session

2024-26

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord West of Spithead | 855 cc20-4 (Link to this contribution)

To ask His Majesty’s Government what assistance, if any, the UK has agreed to provide with mine c...

Lord Coaker | 855 c20 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we continue to convene efforts towards restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of...

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Lord West of Spithead | 855 c20 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I agree entirely with my noble friend the Minister that we must not let this war end wi...

Lord Coaker | 855 c20 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my noble friend for his question. He will know that the Government’s approach is to try t...

Baroness Goldie | 855 c21 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, when President Trump triggered the war in the Middle East, the sole naval response by t...

Lord Coaker | 855 c21 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Baroness will know my answer with respect to the defence investment plan. As I have sai...

Baroness Smith of Newnham | 855 c21 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Minister said how important it was to open up the Strait of Hormuz. If the United S...

Lord Coaker | 855 c21 (Link to this contribution)

We always talk to the United States and continue to do so. The noble Baroness will know from the ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 855 c22 (Link to this contribution)

Can the Minister give us some reaction from the Government to the legality, under international l...

Lord Coaker | 855 c22 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord’s fundamental point is a good one. That is why the Government have consistently sa...

Lord Robathan | 855 c22 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister, for whom I have a great deal of time, agree with me that this is a very dire s...

Lord Coaker | 855 c22 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord has made his point about the Navy and the words he used will have been heard by ev...

Lord Spellar | 855 c22 (Link to this contribution)

I commend my noble friend the Minister for his restraint in not pointing out to the Benches oppos...

Lord Coaker | 855 c23 (Link to this contribution)

The truth of the matter is that we of course need more ships, and investment is going into that n...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 855 c23 (Link to this contribution)

I think I have heard the Minister remind us from the Dispatch Box that the pipelines bypassing th...

Lord Coaker | 855 c23 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord has huge experience in this area, and he is right to point out that it is interest...

Lord Peach | 855 c23 (Link to this contribution)

I take the Minister back to the Navy of the future and agree with the proposition. In the world w...

Lord Coaker | 855 c23 (Link to this contribution)

I totally agree with the noble and gallant Lord, and that is why I was at the National Centre for...

Lord Purvis of Tweed | 855 c24 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, further to my noble friend’s question, does the Minister believe that there are any—or ...

Lord Coaker | 855 c24 (Link to this contribution)

As I said to the noble Lord’s noble friend, we continue to discuss these matters with the United ...

Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 855 c24 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Minister accept that the problem that both the US Navy and the Royal Navy have is that t...

Lord Coaker | 855 c24 (Link to this contribution)

I take the noble Lord’s point with respect to that. My understanding is that many ships have capa...

Subjects

Bomb disposal Strait of Hormuz Sea mines

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