The FCO and the Spending Review 2015

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I have made that point before and will make it again in r...

As a member of the previous Foreign Affairs Committee, may I suggest that trying to make unnecess...

My hon. Friend makes an entirely valid point. He sat on the Committee in the last Parliament and ...

If my hon. Friend is seeking a cure for insomnia, may I refer him to my speech on Friday when I s...

My hon. Friend will be delighted to hear that that is precisely what my Committee will try to do....

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the public are keen that his Committee, and others, re-establi...

It has, and I have already attended that Committee’s first meeting. It is being excellently chair...

I will get my hon. Friend out of that hole by intervening on him. I pay tribute to his chairmansh...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I recall that it is my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick...

The hon. Gentleman raises a good point, and I look forward to working with him in trying to bring...

I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman, and we look forward with interest to the motivation o...

On the hon. Gentleman’s point about increasing the number of personnel do deal with Brexit, the C...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right—she understands those issues extremely well from her work on th...

I am going to do something very unusual, very different and possibly subversive here today with t...

Order. Will the hon. Gentleman try to fit his more general point about estimates into the specifi...

Well, the estimates are the estimates, Madam Deputy Speaker. I struggle to think that when we tal...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is a most important point. When I was Chairman of...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order, but we are debating a specific motion on the ...

I will make an attempt to stay in order, Madam Deputy Speaker. According to Standing Order No. 54...

The answer, as the hon. Gentleman knows, is that this is not a general debate on estimates. This ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I just ask how I, or any other hon. Member, can qu...

As the hon. Gentleman knows—he has been here a very long time—there are Treasury questions, Budge...

I will give it one last bash, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let us hope we can make a little bit more pro...

Order. I think that is enough. I think we have had the debate. The hon. Gentleman has had a debat...

indicated dissent.

I call John Baron.

2.18 pm

There is an old Army adage, which has served the British Army well, that says time spent on recon...

The hon. Gentleman has a long track record on these issues, and I am particularly grateful for hi...

I made the mistake of not finishing my sentence; next time I will finish it. I was about to say t...

At this juncture, with my hon. Friend referring to Libya, I must interject that he was the only C...

I thank my hon. Friend and fellow Select Committee member for his kind words. I agree: there does...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron). He made a very...

The hon. Lady is making some excellent points, and I would love to remain in the Chamber to liste...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he has said. On this occasion, I shall forgive him.

The...

I congratulate the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Reiga...

And what does the hon. Gentleman think Putin would want in relation to the UK’s membership of the...

The right hon. Gentleman must have read the next page of my speech. I shall answer that question ...

When we met Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels last week, he not only concurred with a lot of what my h...

I entirely agree with that. I am certainly not somebody who believes in confrontation; my hon. Fr...

When I used to go back to Warsaw to see my grandfather in communist times, we always listened to ...

As always, my hon. Friend makes a very powerful point, and he and his family perhaps understand t...

I welcome the opportunity for this debate, and it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for New...

Order. I hope that was in order, because I have no idea what the right hon. Gentleman just said. ...

I am happy to translate it. I simply said that if President Putin wants to talk to us, we will be...

Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House of what we were being asked to take action for?