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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Like my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Sarah Atherton), I very much welcome the fact that the MOD is taking the Arctic and the threat from Russia along its 20,000-mile border in the Arctic very seriously indeed, as is NATO. It has long been promised that the MOD will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"I very much agree with the Minister that Op Pitting was a superbly successful operation, no matter what else one might say about Afghanistan. It is only right that we in this House and across the Palace should thank and welcome the people who carried out that operation, and Members …..."
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Written Question
External Scrutiny Team: Annual Reports
Tuesday 9th November 2021

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2021 to Question 48135 on Reserve Forces, whether he plans to publish the 2021 annual report produced by the Reserve Forces External Scrutiny Team before its author, Major General Simon Lalor, addresses the APPG for Armed Forces on Monday 8 December 2021.

Answered by James Heappey

We anticipate the report should be placed in the Library of the House prior to 8 December 2021.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Sep 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"Mr Speaker, thanks to your very kind invitation, 120 members of the armed forces who served will be welcomed to Parliament on 20 October, immediately after Prime Minister’s Question Time. I hope all Members of the House will be there to give them a very warm welcome. I very much …..."
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Written Question
Reserve Forces
Friday 17th September 2021

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish the 2021 annual report produced by the Reserve Forces External Scrutiny Team; and if he will place a copy of that report in the Library.

Answered by James Heappey

We are very grateful to the External Scrutiny Team for their work. The Ministry of Defence will place their 2021 report in the Library of the House in the next few weeks.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I first call attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my involvement in the all-party parliamentary group for the armed forces and the Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust, both of which I chair and both of which are supported by …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Mar 2021
Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper

"The detail of the announcement, wide-ranging and important as it is, will be chewed over over the coming days, and there will be some good bits and some bad bits. However, I congratulate the Secretary of State on the honesty, the directness and the detail that is in this Command …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"  The hundred or so families at Lyneham in my constituency who are facing eviction from Annington homes will very much welcome the Minister’s remark a moment ago that he is to extend the eviction notice period until next March. They will also be glad that there are to be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jan 2021
Covid-19 Response: Defence Support

"First, let me join the Secretary of State in thanking all the military personnel involved, in every way, for all they have done in this national effort. They are always ready to step up to the mark. Will he also acknowledge the huge contribution being made by St John Ambulance, …..."
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