Armed Forces Bill. Lords second reading debate agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Grand Committee.
Armed Forces Bill
Debate on bills on Wednesday, 6 July 2011,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Astor of Hever.
The answering
member was Lord Rosser.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
729 c271-342
Session
2010-12
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Armed Forces Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 76-EN also published.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Bills
House of Lords
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Touhig | 729 c323-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I can appreciate the real sense of pride that the Minister has in introducing this Bill. I...
Lord Dannatt | 729 c318-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, much of what is in this five-yearly re-visitation of the legislation that regulates the pr...
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Lord Sheikh | 729 c320-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is an important and timely debate, and I very much welcome the Bill. The issues with ...
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill | 729 c317-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, like so many other noble Lords, I will concentrate my remarks on the Armed Forces covenant...
Lord Boyce | 729 c310-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee and member of various service charities.
I welcome the...
Lord Lyell | 729 c313-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what a pleasure and privilege it is to follow the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Boyce. Inde...
Lord Kakkar | 729 c306-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall confine my comments to health. In so doing, I welcome the inclusion of the Armed F...
Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich | 729 c308-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am pleased to participate from this Bench on Second Reading of an important Bill, not le...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 729 c305-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall confine my remarks to Clause 25, which is concerned with claims against visiting f...
Lord Rosser | 729 c333-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, extend my thanks to the Minister and his officials for the briefings on the Bill t...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 729 c336-42 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this extremely constructive and largely non-parti...
Lord Burnett | 729 c325-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Touhig. We have known each other for many ...
Lord Walker of Aldringham | 729 c327-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in the Sunday Telegraph was an inspiring article about four young soldiers who intend to r...
Lord Selsdon | 729 c329-30 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have thoroughly enjoyed this debate—it was the spirit of it—although I did nip out for a...
Viscount Slim | 729 c331-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is always convenient to be tail-end Charlie because everything I want to say has been s...
Lord Stirrup | 729 c279-81 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the Minister said, this is a substantially smaller Bill than that brought forward in 20...
Lord Craig of Radley | 729 c288-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, five years ago when this House considered the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2006, ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 729 c286-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the Association of Military Court Advocates. I am ver...
Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 729 c283-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. I remember him well fr...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 729 c281-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, who has had a v...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 729 c292-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too greatly welcome this Bill. As has already been pointed out several times by my noble...
Baroness Fookes | 729 c292 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble and gallant Lord for that clarification.
Lord Stirrup | 729 c292 (Link to this contribution)
Before the noble Baroness sits down, I wonder whether she will allow me just two seconds, for the sa...
Lord Selsdon | 729 c293 (Link to this contribution)
Will the noble Lord give way?
Lord Selsdon | 729 c293 (Link to this contribution)
I was only going to say that I think we are debating the Armed Forces Bill.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 729 c294 (Link to this contribution)
I apologise for interrupting but I would simply like to point out, although I know this is rather of...
Lord Addington | 729 c295-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing this Bill in. it is interesting to speak on a Bill that ...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 729 c294-5 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord will know, I am sure, that defence procurement requires spending money now for capabi...
Lord Empey | 729 c300-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am conscious that in the debate today there are many noble, and noble and gallant, Lords...
Lord Bilimoria | 729 c297-300 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, let us imagine a dream scenario; one in which the public are 100 per cent behind the Armed...
Baroness Drake | 729 c303-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, defence matters are not my area of expertise. Many in this Chamber today are very well inf...
Lord Freeman | 729 c302-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak from these Benches later than my noble friend Lord Selkirk, who ...
Lord Lee of Trafford | 729 c277-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, our nation has always rightly had a high regard for our Armed Forces, but only relatively ...
Baroness Crawley | 729 c274-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by paying tribute to our Armed Forces and the extraordinary commitment they show i...
Lord Astor of Hever | 729 c271-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be read a second time.
The Ministry of Defence normally has ...
Lord Astor of Hever | 729 c271 (Link to this contribution)
That the Bill be read a second time.
Baroness Fookes | 729 c290-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, has shot my fox because one of the points that I w...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 729 c293 (Link to this contribution)
Of course, but I am conscious of time and I will take maybe another minute or two of the House’s tim...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 729 c293-4 (Link to this contribution)
I am very well aware of that. The Armed Forces Bill is designed to give the Executive branch the rig...
Lord Judd | 729 c314-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we can do nothing but applaud those final sentiments. The right reverend Prelate the Bisho...
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