UK Defence Forces

I do not want to bite into anybody’s time but I respectfully but firmly remind noble Lords that t...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for arranging this timely debate. Of course, we should strive...

My Lords, I join others in commending the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for securing this debate and fo...

My Lords, if Ministers get defence wrong the nation will never forgive them, and the costs in blo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for giving me and others this chance to me...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for initiating this most timely debate. I thought h...

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Soley for giving us the opportunity today to have a ...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for securing this debate. His choice of ...

My Lords, I draw the attention of your Lordships’ House to my entry in the register, which mentio...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord on securing this debate. Thanks to the evidence given to ...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Soley, on his excellent speech and on procuri...

My Lords, I join others in congratulating my noble friend on his initiative and on a Motion which...

My Lords, as we have heard, the UK has the fifth largest defence budget in the world and we meet ...

My Lords, the issue before us all is that defence expenditure has to be increased. There can be n...

My Lords, I find myself very much in agreement with what the noble Lord, Lord Owen, has just said...

My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for initiating the debate, especially as I have...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Soley for this pertinent and important debate and congratu...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for securing this debate and for his excellent spee...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend Lord Soley not only for having introduced this debate but f...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Soley, for this debate and for his speech. Bein...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Soley, posed the underlying question for this debate: are we prepa...

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Soley for procuring this debate. It seems to me that...

My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Soley, on securing this important debate...

Is it not true, however, that there was a reduction of 4,000 in the recruitment ceiling in the Ro...

Opinions can differ about what that ceiling should be. All I can tell the noble Lord, Lord West, ...

Just before the noble Earl sits down, could I ask him to reflect back to the Secretary of State f...

The noble Lord need have no concern, I shall do that, as I always do.

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The noble Lord has just taken the words out of my mouth. I thank all noble Lords for their though...