US National Security Strategy

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton Excerpts

Tuesday 16th December 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab)]

We are very close to our friends in the United States on the issue of Ukraine. We support the efforts to bring about the peace that President Trump is currently leading, and the progress that may be being made in that. We will continue to work incredibly closely alongside them to bring about the peace that we all want to see.

[Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Con)]

My Lords, I was in Washington DC last week with other members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and when the national security strategy was discussed with our fellow elected members in the US, their message was clear: that NSSs come and go, sometimes they are implemented and sometimes not, but we should judge by what Congress passes. Last week, the National Defense Authorization Act delivered an extra £8 billion to European defence and put a floor of some 76,000 US troops in Europe. While the Minister will not have done an assessment of the NDAA, will she write to me with that assessment and put a copy in the Library?

[Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab)]

I am sure that my friends and colleagues at the MoD will be undertaking such an assessment, and I will pass that request on to them. I think they are best placed to do that, but as the noble Lord said, there are many complex things going on in politics in any country, and the US is no different.