Integrated Review
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the Government’s integrated review of sec...
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Close, Mr Speaker.
We will also establish a cross-Government situation centre in the Cabine...
We want the integrated review to work. Threats to our national security are increasing; they are ...
First, we have one of the toughest arms export regimes in the world under the consolidated guidan...
My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has pointed out that the present Labour leadership is mor...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his points. People listening to this debate might not grasp t...
I thank the Prime Minister for advance copy of his statement, and I thank my Scottish National pa...
This Government continue to invest massively in projects that will bring benefit to the whole of ...
I very much welcome the comprehensive ambitions set out in this important integrated review paper...
I must say that I think there is a balance to be struck, because, after all, we have a strong tra...
We have heard a lot of words like “ambition” and “innovation”, so let me bring the Prime Minister...
The hon. Lady should recognise that this is the biggest commitment in spending on our armed force...
As the Prime Minister just mentioned the National Security and Investment Bill, I hope I can rely...
Those who call for a new cold war on China or for us to sequester our economy entirely from China...
I am really shocked that development is barely mentioned in the integrated review. When will the ...
As I have just explained, development remains an absolutely critical part of the UK’s foreign and...
I very much welcome the integrated review as it is set out, and I welcome its aspiration to coher...
It is a pretty big blizzard of a snowstorm when we consider that there is £24 billion and the big...
Reneging on the commitment to retain 0.7% of GNI on development spending is a short-sighted mista...
The habit of reading out questions that have been prepared means that I am obliged to return the ...
There is much to be welcomed in my right hon. Friend’s statement today, but is he not concerned t...
I have great respect and admiration for my right hon. Friend, who has campaigned for many years o...
Given that the Prime Minister said the climate crisis is his No. 1 international priority, it is ...
It is entertaining to see the shadow Foreign Secretary nodding along to the hon. Lady’s denunciat...
I very much welcome this integrated review, although I think there will be challenges in re-engin...
I thank my right hon. Friend, who knows whereof he speaks and has done much to advance the cause ...
This integrated review looks like a desperate, confused and self-important search for purpose, fa...
I remind the hon. Gentleman that the people of Wales voted to leave the EU. I think they did the ...
I welcome this integrated review. I recognise how difficult it is to do one during a pandemic. I ...
Yes indeed, my right hon. Friend is right in what he says about the ODA commitment and right in w...
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. Will he outline the strategy to bring back into lin...
The first point to make about the armed forces is that there will be no redundancies under this p...
As someone who is proud to represent a constituency with tens of thousands of defence and aerospa...
Yes, and one of the things that our defence investments can do is help to entrench our Union and ...
Will the Prime Minister explain how building national resilience will include the digital transfo...
As I just said to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), we are investing massively in cyb...
The late and respected American Senator John McCain said in a 2008 speech:
“We have to stre...
Yes. Our commitment to Israeli security is unwavering, and we continue to work closely with our p...
Will the Prime Minister level with the country and tell us exactly how he plans to reduce the arm...
I have already explained that this is the biggest investment in our armed forces since the cold w...
I have been absolutely honoured this year to spend time with the Royal Navy, as part of the armed...
Yes, indeed, and that is why we are investing in cyber and in shipbuilding. By the end of this de...
The Prime Minister says that he is tough on illegal migration at home, but withdrawing and reduci...
The hon. Gentleman is not right; in fact, I think he is talking total nonsense. The most effectiv...
I strongly welcome and support my right hon. Friend’s statement today on our post-Brexit strategy...
I thank my right hon. Friend. He is quite right because this integrated review supports our overs...
Today we heard the PM speak about a premium based on speed. However, Scotland’s waters make up ov...
I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman’s emphatic desire, as a Scottish nationalist—a member ...
I strongly welcome the much greater coherence that this review will deliver to our national secur...
My hon. Friend is totally right. This is one of the areas that I know that every embassy and cons...
I draw the House’s attention to the fact that I am a member of the board of governors of the West...
Yes, I can. I have seen the excellent work that the Westminster Foundation for Democracy does aro...
Our international ambitions must start at home, and through the integrated review we will drive i...
I am thrilled and amazed to hear that ceramics from my hon. Friend’s constituency have landed on ...
I declare my interest as set out in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
I welcome...
The integrated review is clearly extremely welcome. Does my right hon. Friend agree that a vigoro...
I know that I speak for my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and, indeed, for my hon. Frien...
With hostile states, non-state actors, terror and crime groups all posing a threat to the UK and ...
Of course we are committed to nuclear arms reduction. Indeed, we believe that China should be bro...
I thank the PM for an important statement about the future security of our proud nation. Addressi...
I know that my hon. Friend was listening very carefully to the statement, and she will have spott...
We will certainly take Lancashire, even if the Prime Minister cannot say whereabouts.
The review and the Prime Minister’s statement are typically big on words, but scant on detail or ...
I never saw such a seething mass of contradictions as the Opposition Front Bench, because we only...
We do have to make sure that when we say how people voted, we are correct.
There is much to commend in this statement from the Prime Minister, but I am saddened to hear tha...
I have much enjoyed working with my hon. Friend over the years, and I understand what she says ab...
Despite 20 years of bloodshed, the integrated review makes only two glancing references to Afghan...
As I have repeatedly told President Ghani of Afghanistan, our commitment is for the long term. He...
As a former soldier, may I reassure the Prime Minister that taking the review back to first princ...
We are determined to look after all the wonderful men and women of our armed services, not just b...
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We cannot hear. We will come back to Ms Eshalomi.
May I welcome the Prime Minister’s putting diplomacy at the very heart of the integrated review? ...
We continue to support all the sustainable development goals that my right hon. Friend rightly me...
Why on earth slash budgets used to tackle corruption and promote good governance around the world...
This is the country that spends the most on the global vaccine alliance. This is the country that...
Let us go back to Florence Eshalomi.
Many of my constituents are concerned that much of this review seems to have prioritised the glob...
No, I do not remotely agree with that.
I share the view expressed by the Father of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing Wes...
I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his suggestion. I remind him of what I said about ...
Dealing with authoritarian regimes around the world, especially those that do not want to play by...
As the House has heard many times, it is up to a competent court to determine whether genocide ha...
I think we need to be careful about what allegations we are making.
“Global Britain” remains the buzzword, and our armed forces have a key role to play with the inte...
My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the Army, including reserves, will be over 100,000, b...
I will now suspend the House for two minutes in order for the necessary arrangements to be made f...