Integrated Review Refresh

It is very good to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the Foreign Secretary for...

I am not a religious man, but I understand that there is a phrase in the Bible about how there is...

I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

It is a joy to see you back in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I welcome much of this pra...

The Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee highlighted a number of important areas, and I commend...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

Mr Speaker, while the Deputy Speaker is still in the Chamber, may I too welcome her back to her p...

On who will ultimately pay for the terrible damage across Ukraine, it is absolutely right that th...

I call the Chair of the Defence Committee.

Defence posture matters. If we want to play a role on the international stage, then our hard powe...

We committed to 2.5% of GDP as a sustainable baseline. We announced the additional £5 billion to ...

Having ambition and slogans such as “global Britain” are fine, but without resources behind them ...

The Secretary of State for Defence was just at the Dispatch Box welcoming the money.

Where is he now?

He has gone to Japan, with which we have recently signed a defence agreement for the next generat...

I very much welcome the commitment to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence, and the recommitment with our...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. That is why we have moved to integrated reviews, recogni...

I welcome what I heard was the recognition that when it comes to China we need to do far more to ...

The right hon. Gentleman seems have embedded in his question the idea that our posture to the Ind...

I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s crystal-clear commitment that from 2025 we will spend 2.5% of o...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. When I was running through the list of things ...

We have faced our most perilous moments since the second world war and the height of the cold war...

I struggle to find a question among that stream of consciousness, but the simple truth is that th...

I thank my right hon. Friend for the refresh, which makes the country stronger today. Many of my ...

My hon. Friend is right that it is important for us to build on our existing friendships and deve...

It is a fine, glossy brochure, but we have waited an awfully long time and there is not a lot in ...

I will tell the hon. Gentleman why there is always money for the foundation stone of the Euro-Atl...

I very much welcome the review that my right hon. Friend has announced today. He spoke about the ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Russia’s use of energy supplies is a tool of coercion—t...

The integrated review refresh recognises the challenge from Iran, which has been behind 15 kidnap...

We respond to the threats posed by Iran in the region, against people in the country and internat...

The velvet glove of diplomacy must cover the iron fist. Does my right hon. Friend share my concer...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point about the close working relationship between d...

The 2015 strategic defence and security review estimated that the Dreadnought acquisition program...

Future expenditure will be set out in more detail by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the E...

The extra money for stockpiles and for AUKUS is indeed welcome. The Foreign Secretary rightly spo...

My hon. Friend is very knowledgeable about this subject, and the points that he has made are poin...

The Foreign Secretary referred to a further £5 billion over the next two years, and to the commit...

I thank the hon. and gallant Gentleman for his question. The details of how the Secretary of Stat...

I welcome some of the report, but I want to return to the issue of China, in which, as someone wh...

I reassure my right hon. Friend that in every meeting I have had with representatives of the Chin...

Given the close way in which we have been working with our European allies to resist Russia’s inv...

I have just come back, at the tail and of last week, from the UK-France summit in Paris, and our ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for the presentation of this paper, which show...

My hon. Friend is right to say that all defence postures need to be paid for, and that is why I a...

Does the Foreign Secretary agree that, following his Department’s devastating international aid c...

In absolute terms and in percentage terms, the UK is still one of the largest—[Interruption.] In ...

Many aspects of this statement are welcome, including the increases in our hard power and soft po...

My hon. Friend is right. We have published the integrated review refresh to set the framework for...

Building on the question asked by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iai...

I can assure my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Sm...

I welcome the document’s strength and robustness with regards to Russia’s threat elsewhere than U...

I have had conversations with my Scandinavian, Baltic and Canadian counterparts on the risk to th...

The extra funding being made available to the BBC World Service is particularly welcome. The Worl...

When the impacts of covid were felt across the world, every Government of every political persuas...

Given that the biggest killer of our people, the most frequent breaches of our border and, arguab...

My right hon. Friend is right to say that organised criminal gangs have an international componen...

I refer to my entries in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I was pleased that t...

I genuinely thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. Although we have not made many refer...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that soft power can often be as effective as hard power, if not m...

I suspect that my right hon. Friend, my near neighbour in Essex, knows that he is pushing at the ...

William Gladstone’s third Midlothian speech said that good foreign policy started with “good gove...

There is a phrase, “Always leave them wanting more.” Is that not what they say? [Interruption.] P...

A commitment to promoting freedom of religion or belief was included in the last integrated revie...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s work in this area. She is right: freedom of religion or belief ...

Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that it is no longer Government policy to view the aid budget ...

The hon. Gentleman should listen when we make statements at the Dispatch Box, because we have mad...

I welcome the integrated review refresh. On China’s capabilities, as, I think, the only Mandarin ...

It is incumbent on us to make sure that we understand China better. I am not fatalistic about our...

Some analysts believe that a war over Taiwan’s sovereignty could occur in the second half of this...

The hon. Lady is right that a conflict across the Taiwan strait would be disastrous not just for ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government’s commitment to increase defence spending to ...

We have fantastic defence industries here in the UK. I think the reason countries are keen to wor...

I thank the Secretary of State very much for his statement and welcome the Government announcemen...

The hon. and gallant Gentleman makes an important point: just because new threats have emerged, a...

As my right hon. Friend has already said, Britain’s soft power is a strategic asset. Does he agre...

My hon. Friend is right that the UK is proudly one of the most significant defence contributors t...

The £5 billion investment in defence spending in the upcoming AUKUS announcement offers substanti...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is not just a cross-Government endeavour but a cross-soc...