Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Harvey and Jack Lopresti

Monday 4th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Nick Harvey]

The national security strategy anticipated a variety of threats from different parts of the globe throughout its 10-year time frame. It proposed that we should have flexible and adaptable forces that are capable of responding to different scenarios in different ways at different times. The momentum of activity following the uprisings in north Africa and the middle east has called us into action, but that action has so far shown to be perfectly manageable within the arrangement that the strategic defence and security review laid down. No reason has been provided at this stage for anybody to contemplate a different arrangement.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

4. What steps his Department is taking to promote defence exports.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Harvey and Jack Lopresti

Monday 16th May 2011 Commons Chamber

[Nick Harvey]

I understand that Gaddafi has already been referred to the court and that that decision was taken internationally at the ICC. I entirely see the comparison that the right hon. Gentleman is drawing and it would seem to me that the international forces that reached the conclusions they did about Gaddafi are highly likely to arrive at a similar conclusion.

[Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)]

9. What assessment he has made of the adequacy of equipment provided to the armed forces to counter improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.