"My Lords, I conducted the study 30 years ago into whether women should serve at sea and came to the conclusion that they should, and it has been a huge success. Does my noble friend the Minister agree that, overall, women have added hugely to our Armed Forces and that, …..." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"My Lords, our submarine force is in a parlous state—the worst in my 60 years of service. Successive delays in ordering, a lack of dry dock investment, the failure to recruit and train the requisite nuclear personnel, training delays for those for those we have got, lack of spares and …..." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what measures they have implemented to resolve problems confronting the Royal Navy’s submarine force...." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"Mr Lords, are the Government concerned about the seeming resurgence of ISIL, and what is actually being done about that?..." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"My Lords, it is easy to look on this as some sort of playground bravado by President Trump, who clearly did not understand the implications of, or what was meant by, the trials of delivery systems that Putin was conducting. With him having made his statement, President Putin wanted to …..." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of President Trump’s statement on 30 October regarding the testing of nuclear weapons...." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend the Minister knows well that for many years we have been deeply involved in JIATF-East, the joint intelligence drugs task force in the Caribbean. We work very closely and share intelligence across the board. There is nothing strange in having over the years been selective …..." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend the Minister will be aware that when I was First Sea Lord, I used to encourage my sailors to all be on board the ships when they were working...." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"Why should the Civil Service work to a different pattern? Admittedly it has few ships, but I would be very interested to know...." Lord West of Spithead - View Speech
"My Lords, it is inevitable that many speakers today will be covering the same ground, but I do not think that is important because the full impact of the war in Ukraine should be aired in this Chamber. I am delighted that this has been an opportunity to do that.