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Integrated Review

Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 16 March 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Boris Johnson.
Statement on the Government’s integrated review of security, defence, development and foreign policy (CP 403).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
691 cc161-179 
Session
2019-21
Department
Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Boris Johnson | 691 cc161-2 (Link to this contribution)

With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the Government’s integrated review of sec...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c162 (Link to this contribution)

Chorley.


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Boris Johnson | 691 cc162-3 (Link to this contribution)

Close, Mr Speaker.

We will also establish a cross-Government situation centre in the Cabine...

Keir Starmer | 691 cc163-4 (Link to this contribution)

We want the integrated review to work. Threats to our national security are increasing; they are ...

Boris Johnson | 691 cc164-5 (Link to this contribution)

First, we have one of the toughest arms export regimes in the world under the consolidated guidan...

Peter Bottomley | 691 c165 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has pointed out that the present Labour leadership is mor...

Boris Johnson | 691 c165 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his points. People listening to this debate might not grasp t...

Ian Blackford | 691 cc165-6 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Prime Minister for advance copy of his statement, and I thank my Scottish National pa...

Boris Johnson | 691 c166 (Link to this contribution)

This Government continue to invest massively in projects that will bring benefit to the whole of ...

Tobias Ellwood | 691 c166 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome the comprehensive ambitions set out in this important integrated review paper...

Boris Johnson | 691 c167 (Link to this contribution)

I must say that I think there is a balance to be struck, because, after all, we have a strong tra...

Meg Hillier | 691 c167 (Link to this contribution)

We have heard a lot of words like “ambition” and “innovation”, so let me bring the Prime Minister...

Boris Johnson | 691 c167 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady should recognise that this is the biggest commitment in spending on our armed force...

Julian Lewis | 691 c167 (Link to this contribution)

As the Prime Minister just mentioned the National Security and Investment Bill, I hope I can rely...

Boris Johnson | 691 c168 (Link to this contribution)

Those who call for a new cold war on China or for us to sequester our economy entirely from China...

Sarah Champion | 691 c168 (Link to this contribution)

I am really shocked that development is barely mentioned in the integrated review. When will the ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c168 (Link to this contribution)

As I have just explained, development remains an absolutely critical part of the UK’s foreign and...

Tom Tugendhat | 691 c168 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome the integrated review as it is set out, and I welcome its aspiration to coher...

Boris Johnson | 691 c169 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pretty big blizzard of a snowstorm when we consider that there is £24 billion and the big...

Layla Moran | 691 c169 (Link to this contribution)

Reneging on the commitment to retain 0.7% of GNI on development spending is a short-sighted mista...

Boris Johnson | 691 c169 (Link to this contribution)

The habit of reading out questions that have been prepared means that I am obliged to return the ...

Andrew Mitchell | 691 c169 (Link to this contribution)

There is much to be welcomed in my right hon. Friend’s statement today, but is he not concerned t...

Boris Johnson | 691 c169 (Link to this contribution)

I have great respect and admiration for my right hon. Friend, who has campaigned for many years o...

Caroline Lucas | 691 c170 (Link to this contribution)

Given that the Prime Minister said the climate crisis is his No. 1 international priority, it is ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c170 (Link to this contribution)

It is entertaining to see the shadow Foreign Secretary nodding along to the hon. Lady’s denunciat...

Liam Fox | 691 c170 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome this integrated review, although I think there will be challenges in re-engin...

Boris Johnson | 691 c170 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend, who knows whereof he speaks and has done much to advance the cause ...

Hywel Williams | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

This integrated review looks like a desperate, confused and self-important search for purpose, fa...

Boris Johnson | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

I remind the hon. Gentleman that the people of Wales voted to leave the EU. I think they did the ...

Jeremy Hunt | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome this integrated review. I recognise how difficult it is to do one during a pandemic. I ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

Yes indeed, my right hon. Friend is right in what he says about the ODA commitment and right in w...

Jim Shannon | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. Will he outline the strategy to bring back into lin...

Boris Johnson | 691 c171 (Link to this contribution)

The first point to make about the armed forces is that there will be no redundancies under this p...

Jack Lopresti | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

As someone who is proud to represent a constituency with tens of thousands of defence and aerospa...

Boris Johnson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, and one of the things that our defence investments can do is help to entrench our Union and ...

Diana Johnson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Prime Minister explain how building national resilience will include the digital transfo...

Boris Johnson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

As I just said to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), we are investing massively in cyb...

Robert Halfon | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

The late and respected American Senator John McCain said in a 2008 speech:

“We have to stre...

Boris Johnson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

Yes. Our commitment to Israeli security is unwavering, and we continue to work closely with our p...

Nick Smith | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Prime Minister level with the country and tell us exactly how he plans to reduce the arm...

Boris Johnson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

I have already explained that this is the biggest investment in our armed forces since the cold w...

Jane Stevenson | 691 c172 (Link to this contribution)

I have been absolutely honoured this year to spend time with the Royal Navy, as part of the armed...

Boris Johnson | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, indeed, and that is why we are investing in cyber and in shipbuilding. By the end of this de...

Peter Kyle | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

The Prime Minister says that he is tough on illegal migration at home, but withdrawing and reduci...

Boris Johnson | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is not right; in fact, I think he is talking total nonsense. The most effectiv...

David Evennett | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

I strongly welcome and support my right hon. Friend’s statement today on our post-Brexit strategy...

Boris Johnson | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend. He is quite right because this integrated review supports our overs...

Martyn Day | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

Today we heard the PM speak about a premium based on speed. However, Scotland’s waters make up ov...

Boris Johnson | 691 c173 (Link to this contribution)

I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman’s emphatic desire, as a Scottish nationalist—a member ...

Crispin Blunt | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

I strongly welcome the much greater coherence that this review will deliver to our national secur...

Boris Johnson | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is totally right. This is one of the areas that I know that every embassy and cons...

Christine Jardine | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

I draw the House’s attention to the fact that I am a member of the board of governors of the West...

Boris Johnson | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I can. I have seen the excellent work that the Westminster Foundation for Democracy does aro...

Jo Gideon | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

Our international ambitions must start at home, and through the integrated review we will drive i...

Boris Johnson | 691 c174 (Link to this contribution)

I am thrilled and amazed to hear that ceramics from my hon. Friend’s constituency have landed on ...

Darren Jones | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

I declare my interest as set out in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I welcome...

Marco Longhi | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

The integrated review is clearly extremely welcome. Does my right hon. Friend agree that a vigoro...

Boris Johnson | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

I know that I speak for my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and, indeed, for my hon. Frien...

Margaret Ferrier | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

With hostile states, non-state actors, terror and crime groups all posing a threat to the UK and ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

Of course we are committed to nuclear arms reduction. Indeed, we believe that China should be bro...

Katherine Fletcher | 691 c175 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the PM for an important statement about the future security of our proud nation. Addressi...

Boris Johnson | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

I know that my hon. Friend was listening very carefully to the statement, and she will have spott...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

We will certainly take Lancashire, even if the Prime Minister cannot say whereabouts.

Emma Lewell-Buck | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

The review and the Prime Minister’s statement are typically big on words, but scant on detail or ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

I never saw such a seething mass of contradictions as the Opposition Front Bench, because we only...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

We do have to make sure that when we say how people voted, we are correct.

Pauline Latham | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

There is much to commend in this statement from the Prime Minister, but I am saddened to hear tha...

Boris Johnson | 691 c176 (Link to this contribution)

I have much enjoyed working with my hon. Friend over the years, and I understand what she says ab...

Dan Jarvis | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

Despite 20 years of bloodshed, the integrated review makes only two glancing references to Afghan...

Boris Johnson | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

As I have repeatedly told President Ghani of Afghanistan, our commitment is for the long term. He...

James Sunderland | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

As a former soldier, may I reassure the Prime Minister that taking the review back to first princ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

We are determined to look after all the wonderful men and women of our armed services, not just b...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

We cannot hear. We will come back to Ms Eshalomi.

Mark Pritchard | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

May I welcome the Prime Minister’s putting diplomacy at the very heart of the integrated review? ...

Boris Johnson | 691 c177 (Link to this contribution)

We continue to support all the sustainable development goals that my right hon. Friend rightly me...

Stuart C McDonald | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

Why on earth slash budgets used to tackle corruption and promote good governance around the world...

Boris Johnson | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

This is the country that spends the most on the global vaccine alliance. This is the country that...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

Let us go back to Florence Eshalomi.

Florence Eshalomi | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

Many of my constituents are concerned that much of this review seems to have prioritised the glob...

Boris Johnson | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

No, I do not remotely agree with that.

Roger Gale | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

I share the view expressed by the Father of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing Wes...

Boris Johnson | 691 c178 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his suggestion. I remind him of what I said about ...

Chris Bryant | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

Dealing with authoritarian regimes around the world, especially those that do not want to play by...

Boris Johnson | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

As the House has heard many times, it is up to a competent court to determine whether genocide ha...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

I think we need to be careful about what allegations we are making.

Richard Drax | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

“Global Britain” remains the buzzword, and our armed forces have a key role to play with the inte...

Boris Johnson | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the Army, including reserves, will be over 100,000, b...

Lindsay Hoyle | 691 c179 (Link to this contribution)

I will now suspend the House for two minutes in order for the necessary arrangements to be made f...

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