Mentions:
1: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The professionalism that our Armed Forces show is the envy of the world. - Speech Link
2: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) forces of more civilised societies. - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Suppose His Majesty’s Armed Forces are engaged in a high-intensity conflict and an officer is in control - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We are looking at recruitment, retention and reward allowances, developing new ways to identify and incubate - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The previous Labour Government knew their record with members of the armed forces was poor, because in - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) 48% on roughly the same resource, and a large part of that in recent years has been the additional recruitment - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) My understanding is that that particular issue is being looked into by three police forces. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) On Monday, Gordon Brown told the people of these isles that“the forces pulling Britain apart are greater - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I will also say, because it is not said enough, that the overwhelming majority of the police, armed forces - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Labour Mayor is the only one of 43 police and crime commissioners to have missed his police recruitment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) What progress his Department has made on improving the readiness of the armed forces. - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Majesty’s armed forces. - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Majesty’s armed forces. - Speech Link
4: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) That is in large part due to their total failure on armed forces recruitment, and damning new figures - Speech Link
5: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) armed forces parliamentary scheme, both of which I chair. - Speech Link
6: James Heappey (Con - Wells) It is a vital mountain base for so much that the UK armed forces do. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) There are then some hard decisions to be taken about the armed forces. - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) crisis we have in the armed forces that my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) recruitment and retention that the armed forces have ever had to face. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) our plans for tougher sentences and new police powers.This week we have learned that, despite all the armed - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) national living wage, we have increased it—most notably, in my case, ensuring that no member of our armed - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) falling across the UK, but under Sadiq Khan’s watch in London, we have seen crime go up, the Met miss its recruitment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) This country’s treatment of LGBT armed services personnel has indeed been shameful, and the longer it - Speech Link
2: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I remind your Lordships’ House of my interest as a serving member of the Armed Forces. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) public funds of bringing prison officer pension age into line with that of firefighters, the police and armed - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) for any pension; he can retire earlier on a smaller pension and then, unlike most situations in the armed - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) the Government currently have no evidence that the pension arrangements as such are affecting initial recruitment - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) Mentioning pension arrangements for the Armed Forces in the same breath illustrates the hole that the - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Forces themselves, the fire service and the police—and everybody else. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) It was first launched on Armed Forces Day in June 2012 by the then Prime Minister David Cameron, with - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) and they are an important part of the local fabric, supporting occasions from Remembrance Sunday to Armed - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) Like the rest of our modern cadet forces, school cadet units embody the ethos of the armed forces, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) the £1.7 billion spent on hospital beds because patients cannot be discharged; the £3.5 is paid to recruitment - Speech Link
2: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) requirements, let me say that there was also no more money in the Budget for our stretched and depleted armed - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) They hindered recruitment and saw a spike in staff turnover, and as a result both sectors were perilously - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) That forces them back into inadequate but better paid sickness benefits. - Speech Link