Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

I am delighted to confirm that the next years will be all about delivery, delivery, delivery, bas...

It has been a busy week for defence, with the publication of the integrated review confirming Bri...

I appreciate that my right hon. Friend has not yet had a chance to go through this in detail, and...

May I join others in paying tribute to the armed forces and their contribution to addressing the ...

I thank the hon. Lady, but first I want to reassure my right hon. Friend the Member for Bournemou...

I was not on the call list for yesterday’s statement by the Defence Secretary, but I am appalled ...

My hon. Friend has my assurance. This is the incredible value—it has been difficult to get there,...

May I also pay tribute to our armed forces personnel for their role during the pandemic? Their wo...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his warm gratitude to the armed forces. He is absolutely right; th...

I, too, congratulate our armed forces on, and thank them for, all of their work over the past yea...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his question and I well remember visiting the Sierra Nevada Corp...

I welcome today’s publication of the defence strategy. Sadly, it is 11 years late; for the past f...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He has beaten me to it, because I was going to...

I strongly welcome my hon. Friend’s statement and the strategy, including what he outlined on the...

This is a great opportunity to build our skills base and our number of apprentices. My right hon....

I call the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier.

I welcome that we are getting more clarity on some of the issues around defence spending, and par...

I thank the hon. Lady’s Committee for its report in the summer, which was no holds barred; we hav...

Can my hon. Friend confirm exactly how many new ships will be ordered, that they will be built in...

On my hon. Friend’s last point, we are very focused on increasing availability to make certain th...

On the fleet solid support ships, the announcement is of course enormously welcome, but why has i...

I know that the right hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) have b...

Over the last decade, armed forces pay has only risen by about half the rate of inflation and yet...

The hon. Gentleman could persuade his colleagues in the Scottish Parliament to ease the burden of...

The Minister, in his statement, talked of a productive relationship with the industry. One way in...

Action this day, Mr Speaker. First, I can reassure my right hon. Friend that the date is the same...

Perhaps we will have to wait for the shipbuilding strategy document, but will the Minister tell u...

We are grateful for the work of Cammell Laird on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and the company conti...

As we have heard, defence procurement must be about supporting our own strategically important de...

The right hon. Lady will be pleased to hear that the Red Arrows are safe, and the current out-of-...

I have been delighted to hear about planes and ships in the exchanges on the statement so far, bu...

My hon. Friend and, indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr Fysh) are both fantastic adv...

The future surface combatant programme to replace Type 23 began in 1994. By 2005, it had evolved ...

There are shipyards throughout the United Kingdom that will look into this process to see how the...

I am delighted to see the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes) wearing a ...

Yes, I can absolutely assure my hon. Friend on that point. I admire his maths, as well his attent...

The MOD has a mixed record on procurement investment in south Wales. On the one hand, there is a ...

I cannot promise the hon. Gentleman a new home for the Sea Cadets, but I take what he says very s...

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Order. Could the hon. Gentleman start again, please? We had some sort of technical problem.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I first call attention to my entry in the Register of Member...

On OEMs, my hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the fine international companies...

I am fully supportive of having smarter procurement to support British industry and home-grown jo...

I should just be clear that we look at every tender on a case-by-case basis, and we look at each ...

I am sure that the Minister knows that friends of defence on both sides of the House wish to camp...

It is interesting to hear that there are colleagues in the House wishing to campaign for 3% of GD...

For a long time.

My right hon. Friend says that to a Minister for Defence Procurement who is interested to hear it...

On exercise last year, our Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was heavily reliant on Marine Corps F...

To say “helped out” is a little ungenerous. I think the Marine Corps genuinely enjoy working with...

I welcome this strategy, along with the Defence Command Paper. The Minister will know that world-...

My hon. Friend is right that the vast majority of steel on the Queen Elizabeth was from UK source...

I strongly welcome the emphasis of the statement on making more in Britain, because we cannot be ...

As my right hon. Friend will know, the supply chains in defence are vast, but it is an analysis t...

The Government are procuring 80 additional warheads for Trident to stockpile in Scotland, each mo...

Global Britain is about many things, and one of those is helping to defend ourselves, our values,...

I very much welcome the focus of this DSIS on recognising the role that defence can play in contr...

I am grateful that my right hon. Friend has been called as the final Member to ask a question, if...