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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2025
F35A and F35B Jets

"My Lords, can the Minister confirm that the following precis of programme A activity rings true? The F35As are not additional to the programme; they replace 12 F35Bs. The 12 F35As cost $20 million less per plane than the F35Bs, therefore resulting in a saving to the programme of $240 …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago

"My Lords, I echo the words of those who have said, and will no doubt go on to say, what a pleasure it was to be in the Chamber to bear witness to a most delightful maiden speech and an equally thoughtful valedictory one.

The treaty relating to the Chagos …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
National Security Strategy

"My Lords, I congratulate the Government on the strategy, which is both considered and sobering. It is considered because it strikes all the right balances between reinvesting in the conventional deterrents through NATO—the deterrence of Russia by NATO—and building resilience domestically, on which it is strong. The defining feature of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Jun 2025
UK Nuclear Deterrent

"My Lords, does not the Minister crystallise in what he says the stupidity of the situation in which we find ourselves? The declaration that at all costs, at any cost, the nuclear deterrent will be retained, must mean, under a time of fiscal pressure, that the balance of the MoD’s …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Strategic Defence Review

"I briefly add my congratulations to the authorship of this review. It is, in my view, the most considered, professional and comprehensive review that I have ever seen at close quarters. However, the spectre of fiscal pressure attends every chapter and every page. If this is not funded, it is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 22 May 2025
Social Mobility: Sutton Trust Opportunity Index

"My Lords, when it comes to opportunity, a ubiquitous one is service in the Armed Forces, which offers access to the greatest number of apprenticeships, longer life expectancy and highly successful second careers. It probably represents the biggest engine for social improvement in the country. In the context of a …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 22 Apr 2025
One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine

"My Lords, I am delighted to follow my good friend, the noble Lord, Lord Marland, and have this opportunity to make a small and relatively brief contribution to this debate. I do not have anything to add to the International Agreements Committee’s excellent observations on the agreement itself. I agree …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Mar 2025
Future Defence Capability

"My Lords, in the context of additional defence funding, what is now the Government’s dominant policy consideration about how that funding should be spent? Is it to make good our deterrent capability against Russia, or to make good the potential deficit caused by the abandonment of European security guarantees by …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 06 Mar 2025
Ukraine (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)

"My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I am sorry that I have missed some of it. I declare a relevant interest in the register as an adviser to a defence-related tech company called Thales UK.

I start by agreeing with the view …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 28 Jan 2025
Russian Maritime Activity and UK Response

"My Lords, I thank the Minister for sharing the Statement. In the context of tactical action, it is not a bad tactical response. Having read it only just before today’s sitting, I think it aspires to be an element of strategic messaging—but, as that, it is close to hopeless. It …..."
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