Mentions:
1: None package of equipment from the United Kingdom, including equipment relating to long-range strike, air defence - Speech Link
2: None to ensure coherence, and to co-ordinate our support to Ukraine, including through the international capability - Speech Link
3: None partnership, and to support the legitimate aspirations of the Georgian people, as they pursue a free, sovereign - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The UK is a firm friend of the Georgian people and we have a long-standing defence partnership. - Speech Link
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1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) to ensure coherence, and to co-ordinate our support to Ukraine, including through the international capability - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We are clear that Georgia has the sovereign right to pursue its own autonomous path. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) and, ultimately, liberate their sovereign homeland. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) Labour welcomed the creation of a new UK-Latvian drone capability coalition earlier this year and the - Speech Link
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1: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, the defence of Europe is reliant on NATO, not some half-baked EU military organisation. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) Lord West, that the unambiguous commitment by the United Kingdom and United States of their nuclear capability - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) France’s nuclear policy is a sovereign matter, and a matter for the French Government. - Speech Link
4: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) My Lords, our military capability, conventional and nuclear, depends crucially on industrial capacity - Speech Link
5: Lord Morgan (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, would not collaboration in defence with President Macron be much more constructive if we used - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) investing £41 billion in our next generation of the Dreadnought fleet, and investing in our replacement UK sovereign - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) That leaves a critical gap in our air defence capability for which the MOD, and Boeing in particular, - Speech Link
3: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) capability time and again. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) I have been struck that so far many of the speeches have been about defence capability and equipment, - Speech Link
5: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) enable us to train the scientists and engineers of the future, to ensure that we continue to enhance our sovereign - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) It therefore has no impact whatever on our sovereign steelmaking ability. - Speech Link
2: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) When it comes to sovereign capability, the issue is not always what you are doing and choose to make; - Speech Link
3: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) capability to produce virgin steel? - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) There is no sovereign capability to make steel in the blast furnaces at Port Talbot. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) That brings world-beating capability to the market. - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) strategy council, will provide the stability and partnership that the industry needs, and enhance our sovereign - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) supportive of Spaceport Cornwall and all its endeavours, and the point is very well made about the launch capability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The Bill reflects that Parliament is sovereign and can change domestic law as it sees fit, including, - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The Bill reflects that Parliament is sovereign and can change domestic law as it sees fit, including, - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) responds, the Minister explains why several noble and gallant Members of this House—former Chiefs of the Defence - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) weeks ago, it is absolutely no justification for launching more than 300 drones and missiles from one sovereign - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes, for Ukraine not only to win the war but to emerge as a strong sovereign - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Regardless, there can never be any justification for a sovereign country launching over 300 drones and - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) capability, it is a key capability that we need to invest in, and ideally we need to produce more of - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I believe that we should be bold and pursue all routes through which immobilised Russian sovereign assets - Speech Link
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1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) It is very important that we have a strong defence basis; there is no question about that. - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) We need sovereign capability and resilience, and I have a feeling that we will be relying on France and - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) All I can say, as I said earlier, is that 1% of defence requirement is provided by UK steel. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Lady about the importance of sovereign defence capability, and not just because of the economic benefits - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) What assessment he has made of the security of the sovereign base areas and the armed forces in Cyprus - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The SBAs are sovereign bases, so of course we reserve the right to operate from them as needed, based - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Of course, training is fundamental to bringing in the next generation to man our capability. - Speech Link