Armed Forces: Future Force 2020 Debate

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Armed Forces: Future Force 2020

Baroness Stowell of Beeston Excerpts
Thursday 25th February 2016

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
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My Lords, I think that the House is signalling that it wants to hear from the Cross-Benchers.

Lord Boyce Portrait Lord Boyce
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My Lords, a skill set for which there is an ever growing need is, of course, engineering, especially nuclear engineering. Will the Minister say what progress has been made with industry to ensure a flow of that talent between industry and the services, particularly for those who have left the services and joined industry and then been brought back into the services to help out?