Defence Command Paper Refresh

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind comments. Unfortunately for him, I will, however, b...

For the record, we are about to lose one of the best Defence Secretaries we have ever had. He wil...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his work on the report and for his campaigning. Let me also say,...

I call the Scottish National party spokesperson.

I too thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of a draft statement, albeit that there were...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and grateful for his party’s support on Ukraine.

On th...

May I express my admiration for my right hon. Friend’s dedicated and distinguished service as Def...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend. Long before I was doing this job, he was campaigning ...

I know it is considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, even the politically dead, but frankly...

It is very clear. First, the right hon. Gentleman might actually understand that sometimes the su...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his clarity, his calmness, his wisdom and his fortitude. We will...

An important lesson from Ukraine is to make sure it is digitally glued together, and to make sure...

As defence spokesperson and deputy leader of the DUP, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his ho...

This is about making sure the framework is match fit for any expansion and for the future. It is ...

I commend my right hon. Friend for his service and dedication as Secretary of State, and I wish h...

We can argue about size, but we have to make sure that whatever we put in the field is properly e...

May I first thank the Secretary of State for his service? We have known each other for 20-plus ye...

I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman’s comments. We both went to Washington in 2006 to lobb...

I thank the Secretary of State for his impressive, no-nonsense leadership. It is always great to ...

My hon. Friend makes an important observation about Levene. I do not think Levene is fit for toda...

I thank the Secretary of State for his service. Where I have agreed with him, I have said so, not...

I am just looking up page 89, which says that, to counter these threats,

“we will step up o...

May I begin by thanking my right hon. Friend for his service and leadership? Does anything in thi...

There is certainly an odd thing that I observe in the Department: I cannot understand why the pro...

The Secretary of State knows that I am not a defence expert, although I have a great interest in ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind comments. I have always liked both sparring and discussin...

I, too, pay tribute to my right hon. Friend. I am extremely disappointed that he is stepping down...

It absolutely is. The House has heard me say that I have taken the profit from those companies; I...

I want to start by recognising the Secretary of State’s leadership on Ukraine and the wider threa...

The original defence Command Paper absolutely built on that. On the resilience building of nation...

I thank the Secretary of State for his regular visits to David Brown Santasalo Gears in Huddersfi...

Yes, absolutely. I was delighted to visit David Brown—it is the famous David Brown of the Aston M...

The Secretary of State is a thoughtful man, and today he has announced that we are going to be sp...

The right hon. Gentleman knows me fairly well. We once spent a nice week in Iran together, with t...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on an extraordinary four years as Secretary of State for Defe...

Our men and women are motivated by lots of things. The state often shows its appreciation, not on...

I pay my own tribute to the Secretary of State for his service and thank him for the personal cou...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that, as the threat rises, we should respond and design our force...

I thank my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary for his statement and for his fantastic servic...

Yes, we are committed to that, but we have also been honest about the time needed to get to being...

Our forces families are made to live in damp, mouldy service accommodation, with broken boilers. ...

Having listened to the hon. Lady, for example, we have taken money that was allocated elsewhere a...

I commend the leadership of the Secretary of State over the last four years, not just in our resp...

The Ministry of Defence recognises, as does the defence industry, that skills are important. Abou...

I, too, wish the Secretary of State well and thank him for all that he has done. While I welcome ...

That young man will have an excellent future in the armed forces, for as long as he wishes to sta...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. He has been an outstanding Defence Secretary an...

The military could definitely take a leaf out of the civil service’s book. I look at how senior c...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. I believe that he said he might be returning he...