Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Spring Budget 2024Found: Particular risks arise from any further escalation of Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine or the conflict
Estimate memoranda Mar. 06 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: This includes modern, purpose -built houseblocks which will provide improved living space for prisoners
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) In some ways it is like a modern-day version of the Zinoviev letter, in seeking to influence and disrupt - Speech Link
2: Baroness Suttie (LD - Life peer) modern legal structures. - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) The war is a mixture of World War I attrition and 21st-century high-tech drones and the like. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) evils of colonialism while offering a modern colonialism of their own. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) so-called police force of a future Palestinian state starts to acquire heavy weaponry, armour or attack drones - Speech Link
2: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) We left behind a complex and unresolved situation that resulted in decades of conflict and bloodshed - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) It will become another frozen conflict like Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and like what is now rapidly - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) to prevent conflict between the Sudan armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) “Blessed are the peacemakers”—proof, if ever we needed it, that Jesus was better at soundbites than modern - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Sometimes those situations lead to legal conflict and then people have to make a judgment. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Is there not potential for a legal conflict between a driver who says, “I was in self-driving mode,” - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) It is not legislation to properly regulate e-scooters, e-bikes or drones, to set minimum standards for - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) not want my car to drive itself, although I do enjoy the driver aids seen in most modern cars. - Speech Link
5: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham) A lorry lost control and swerved into the bus stop, and the child could not escape the vehicle and was - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: HMPPS evidence to Prison Service Pay Review Body: 2024Found: Drones can be used to smuggle drugs, phones, and weapons that enable criminality behind bars.
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: HMPPS evidence to Prison Service Pay Review Body: 2024Found: Drones can be used to smuggle drugs, phones, and weapons that enable criminality behind bars.
Oral Evidence Feb. 28 2024
Inquiry: Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK DefenceFound: Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and The Economist Oral Evidence
Mentions:
1: None Putin arrogantly assumed that this conflict would be over in days, and he was wrong. - Speech Link
2: None This conflict has indeed demonstrated that drones are changing the face of modern warfare, and we are - Speech Link
3: None This is about mine detection drones, raiding craft and Sea King helicopters, which have already been - Speech Link
4: None Britain has earmarked some £200 million to procure and produce long-range strike and sea drones, and - Speech Link
5: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) There is £40 million for drones and another £194 million across air defence and maritime packages. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Ukraine has also shown the importance of drones. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) That should not be a source of shame, but an inevitable consequence of being forward-leaning, modern - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Ukraine during this time of conflict? - Speech Link
4: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) I am particularly pleased that he has sought to bring the learning from the current conflict in Ukraine - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) In effect, as I have said, we will be using that with drones and uncrewed systems, but I am happy to - Speech Link