Mentions:
1: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) , only 3% of India’s defence acquisitions came from the UK. - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) Malaysia and Singapore are both Commonwealth nations, with very visible investment in the UK—you have - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The previous Government’s agreements with Singapore and Vietnam set a strong foundation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rosie Wrighting (Lab - Kettering) Given the Prime Minister’s recent announcements, and our increased defence spending, does my right hon - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) We all know that there are defence manufacturers—drone manufacturers in particular—that struggle to get - Speech Link
3: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) Even as this Government’s industrial strategy is being shaped, defence is now the utmost priority. - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) I join Opposition Members in thanking her son for his service in the defence of our nation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) It is happening in Singapore. We are going to Curaçao, which now has a walk-through border. - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) I am not a lawyer, so I should be careful here, but I understand that there is a defence in the legislation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) AstraZeneca is investing more than £4 billion in Singapore, the US and Canada. - Speech Link
2: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) The Prime Minister has just held talks for a UK-EU defence and security partnership, in which the development - Speech Link
3: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) I think we all fear where this could end, and the dangerous implications for our defence and our security - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) And they want to force through the Chagos fiasco, Britain’s biggest capitulation since Singapore in 1942 - Speech Link
2: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) If their 3-amp fuses do not blow too soon, perhaps our underpowered team might get to discuss defence - Speech Link
3: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) We must take that message away when we consider defence spending. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) In my defence, I point out that I entered the ballot before the date had been set for Report stage of - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) been put to bed under the last Government, but this Government seem even more intent on creating a Singapore-on-Thames - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Japan and Singapore view web crawling and data mining as “non-consumptive” of a copyrighted work, and - Speech Link
2: None Misuse Act 1990 is amended as follows.(2) In section 1, after subsection (3) insert— “(4) It is a defence - Speech Link
3: Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (Con - Life peer) All I ask is that noble Lords should read the amendment, which says:“It is a defence to a charge … to - Speech Link
4: Earl of Erroll (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We ended up with a rather odd situation where there is no defence against being a good guy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) We have been to Norway, Singapore and Malaysia, and we plan to be in the US in April. - Speech Link
2: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Technology was a key theme of my recent visit to Malaysia and Singapore. - Speech Link
3: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) Before Christmas, Lord Robertson, who is leading the strategic defence review, came before the Defence - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We are committed to that because this is a serious review into our defence. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Dillington (XB - Life peer) That includes countries such as Singapore, which are, in essence, city states. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) The forthcoming defence review needs to set out the unanswerable case for an increase in the defence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Defence spending is not a luxury; it is a necessity. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) Such a post could be based jointly in the Ministry of Defence and the FCDO. - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) In addition, in March 2022, the Ministry of Defence published a policy paper titled The UK’s Defence - Speech Link