Mentions:
1: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel; secondly, there is a backlog at Rafah—there are columns of trucks in sovereign - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) said many times at this Dispatch Box already, what matters is whether it has the commitment and the capability - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Austin, said, Israel has a right to self-defence. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) My Lords, in 2022 the then Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, told the International Relations and Defence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) What risk analysis has the MoD undertaken to assess the value of high-capability platforms versus airframe - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The key is that, as the threat changes, we need to change the capability to meet it. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) As the OBR has confirmed, our reforms to the work capability assessment will reduce the number of people - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) The situation in Ukraine clearly illustrates the need to spend more on defence. - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) Corporation, we created a structure that could have rivalled the Norwegians for providing dividends and a sovereign - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) economy, so that steel companies can seize the opportunities of the future and Britain can maintain its sovereign - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Friend reminds me of that famous scene in “Yes, Prime Minister”—thank God defence is held at central - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Data retention notices—or DRNs—and interception technical capability notices—or TCNs—can be given to - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) That is the fundamental question.The jurisdiction of this House must be sovereign. - Speech Link
4: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) It should be noted that technical capability notices already contain a notification requirement; this - Speech Link
5: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) Could an Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence therefore be designated as one of these - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None on delivery, we have been driving pace and agility through streamlined processes and increasing the capability - Speech Link
2: None In a world where our adversaries are threatening to out-compete us in capability terms, we have no choice - Speech Link
3: None industrial options, ensuring that we make the best-informed decision on whether to go for off the shelf, sovereign - Speech Link
4: None For such spiral programmes we will abolish initial operating capability and full operating capability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) The combination of those factors means that single source procurement amounts to about 50% of defence - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) I just make the point that the single source procurement regime exists to protect sovereign capability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) disrupt maritime navigation, and we acknowledge and thank our Armed Forces for their professionalism, capability - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) If you want a defence capability, it needs consistent resourcing and you must take the public with you.My - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) interests, hostile and inimical to those of the free world.China has happily watched Putin invade a sovereign - Speech Link
4: Baroness Suttie (LD - Life peer) No country should ever have the right to declare that another sovereign country does not have the right - Speech Link
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1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) Type 26 and Type 31 new ships for the Navy and so forth, but the fact remains that we clearly have capability - Speech Link
2: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) we are uniquely placed to ensure that the peace talks from which Armenia emerges leave it a strong, sovereign - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) the violence.When I met the IDF spokesman, I asked for an estimate of how much they had depleted the capability - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) There has been an enormous uplift in the capacity, capability and quality of what we do.I thought that - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) With the Ministry of Defence, we are increasing European defence production. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) We have a perfect right to do so as long as Parliament remains sovereign. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) reflects the Government’s confidence in the assurances of the treaty and in Rwanda’s commitment and capability - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The protocol framework provision trumps domestic law and the wishes of our sovereign Parliament. - Speech Link
4: None On 5 February, I asked whether the Ministry of Defence, in carrying out the review, would undertake not - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This was recently announced by the Defence Secretary and while many former members of Afghan specialist - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Friend the Member for Wrexham (Sarah Atherton) has done so when we have been looking at the defence industry - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) That goes directly to Treasury coffers, and 25% goes to the monarch via the sovereign grant. - Speech Link
3: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff Central) communities across Wales, the backbone of our local economies and the foundation of our manufacturing capability - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) First, there is no sovereign capability to make steel in a blast furnace, because every single bit of - Speech Link