Integrated Review: Defence Command Paper

Oh dear. I get the impression that no matter what I brought to the House today, that speech would...

A Russian armoured division has three brigades.

If my right hon. Friend wants to see what happened to a Russian armoured division, he should look...

Yes!

I knew that was what the hon. Member from the Scottish nationalist party was going to say; it was...

With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, may I just pay tribute to PC Keith Palmer, who was killed on th...

Asking any Defence Secretary in history if he would like to support an increase in his budget is ...

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of the paper and his statement, and I apologise ...

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concerns both about reliance on technology and the human in the...

I welcome the clarity of my right hon. Friend’s statement today and I look forward to the publica...

My right hon. Friend laid the foundations for linking prosperity in a much more deliberate and th...

I should make it clear that neither I nor my party can agree with the proposal to increase the nu...

The Reserve Forces 2030 review on the next iteration of reserves will report to Parliament very s...

The Government are absolutely right in their vision of a global Britain that does not simply watc...

It will mean more opportunities for them to do the job that they have trained for to help to deli...

I recognise that the Secretary of State will come before the Defence Committee so look forward to...

Yes, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there will be no change to that. We continue to invest in...

Last week’s integrated review made it clear that the threats that our country faces are changing ...

One way in which our adversaries use sub-threshold activity is by corrupting or undermining a fra...

Our strategic threats are from China, which grows stronger each day from manufacturing trade, and...

I am sure the Secretary of State will find a way of answering what was a slightly wide question.<...

The hon. Gentleman actually raises an important point. At the beginning of the Command Paper is a...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to innovation, to the economy and to generating great...

I would be delighted to visit. We are investing in upgrading our Challengers and Ajax, and I woul...

The Government have frequently confirmed their commitment to the non-proliferation treaty, which ...

Madam Deputy Speaker, you will know, having been in the House for many years, that Governments do...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his Defence Command Paper, which I broadly welcome, in particula...

Obviously, detail around development, use and, indeed, deployment of nuclear warheads is a very s...

As the UK Government announce billions more for Trident, while my constituents have been forced t...

I am not quite sure whether the hon. Lady now belongs to a party that does want to belong to NATO...

I call the Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Dr Julian Lewis.

On the threats from Russia and communist China, will my right hon. Friend acknowledge that confli...

I think my right hon. Friend is very right about a lot of these things. A number of activities ta...

First, can I say to the Secretary of State that he should actually read the National Audit Office...

I have read the NAO report. In fact, I usually bring it to every parliamentary questions because ...

I welcome the announcement that my right hon. Friend intends to grow the UK fleet of frigates and...

First and foremost, the key thing about our ships is to make sure that they are available to use....

As a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee, I am under no illusion about the evolving...

No, I do not. If the hon. Lady wants to know one of the reasons that we have taken a slightly dif...

There is much to welcome in this statement. My only concern relates to some of the cuts in our co...

My hon. Friend and I completely agree on this matter. We are going to invest in and increase the ...

The Defence Secretary has justified the decision to cut troop numbers because of evolving threats...

I know that the hon. Gentleman comes with good experience of the armed forces, and he will also k...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that there has been a lot of uninformed hysteria in reaction to t...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is nothing in what he has said that I disagree wi...

I am anxious to allow the Secretary of State a chance to expand on that. What exactly is the new ...

Disarmament is achieved when both sides are credible in what they offer up. To offer up something...

I congratulate the Secretary of State and his team on these forward-thinking and rather smart pro...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. I made available to Members of the House a briefing by t...

The confirmation of a reduction in troop numbers will obviously be a huge concern to many service...

All service leavers will get full support on the resettlement journey, but there will be no redun...

The Secretary of State knows that the Defence Committee has been briefed on the emerging threats ...

First and foremost, when it comes to numbers, carriers used to take 1,800 members to crew them; t...

The Defence Committee’s very unsentimental report on army procurement recently concluded:

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I read that report—of reports I have read in my time, I think I would give it one out of 10. [Int...

I was not in the Department—you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Order. I think yelling at each other is really not a good look. I think the Secretary of State ha...

May I bring a bit of peace to the Chamber by suggesting that what we all need is some stability i...

First of all, the Russians will look at the fact that we have learned the lessons of Crimea and e...

We have another 12 questions to get through and we have run rather over time already, so I urge M...

Although I am concerned about cuts to my own service and possible stretch, I recognise that this ...

My hon. Friend makes a really important point about how we operate to make sure that we not only ...

At a time when the Government say there is no money for a proper pay rise for NHS workers, they a...

We are not going to spend billions increasing the number of nuclear weapons. In 2016, the House v...

I congratulate and thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. The review specifically refers t...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that they are really important; they are more important than t...

I would like to hear a little more about how the reduction in troop numbers is going to be manage...

First of all, there will not be any redundancies. This process can be managed over the next five ...

I welcome this thoughtful defence Command Paper, particularly the new investment in space, cyber,...

There is the first bid, from my hon. Friend’s constituency. My hon. Friend is a doughty fighter f...

I see that units of Government press officers have been on manoeuvres this past week, but unfortu...

I do not think it does. When the hon. Gentleman’s party was in government, it did not reverse the...

I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s words from the Dispatch Box this afternoon, especially...

If my hon. Friend would like me to, I would be delighted to get him a briefing on the exact progr...

Last week, the Prime Minister was unable to state how the Government’s commitment to internationa...

I am afraid that I cannot, at the Dispatch Box, tell people about the credibility of our nuclear ...

The detail of the announcement, wide-ranging and important as it is, will be chewed over over the...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the challenges and opportunities around the high ...

Our brave and highly trained military servicemen and servicewomen are, as the Defence Secretary h...

First of all, yes, and we can. Secondly, if the hon. Gentleman really wants to know what is moral...

I very much welcome this defence review: it is a proper look at the threats as they evolve and at...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. NATO, first and foremost, is the guarantor of Euro...

According to Admiral Mike Mullen, the ex-chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, 70,000-odd arm...

The lesson of Sierra Leone and other places is actually that if we engage in conflict prevention ...

I welcome the announcements today, especially on the formation of the Ranger regiment. I see the ...

I think we have a volunteer here, Madam Deputy Speaker. If my hon. Friend is ready to deploy, I h...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement.