Defence and Security Industrial Strategy

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, and the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, for their...

My Lords, we now come to the 20 minutes allocated for Back-Bench questions. As ever, pith is the ...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests as set out in the register. This was a good review, wh...

My noble friend asks a very perceptive question. We are satisfied that, despite a reduction to 72...

I draw attention to my interests in the register. As our Armed Forces move from a platform-centri...

I say to the noble and gallant Lord that I love the analogy; it is very apposite. He identifies a...

My Lords, given the Prime Minister’s commitment to thousands of additional jobs in the defence se...

Yes, it is a very important part of what we are doing. As the noble Lord spoke, I was looking at ...

The Government state that the future will be digital, cyber and technological. It so happens that...

This is all about an increasingly close partnership between government and industry. The noble Lo...

My Lords, may I ask about the rollout of work? Part of the problem in the industry has been that ...

The noble Lord will be aware from the White Paper published on Monday that very close attention w...

My Lords, this comprehensive industrial strategy is very much to be welcomed. I focus on the ship...

I think the noble and gallant Lord would agree that what was outlined in the Command Paper is exc...

My Lords, I think I would give eight out of 10 for this. I am delighted that the Government recog...

To take the last point first, no, absolutely not. While I welcome the noble Lord’s eight out of 1...

My Lords, to follow up on the question from my noble friend Lady Smith, military procurement has ...

I am sure the noble Lord will understand that the budget constraints on all departments, not leas...

I remind the House of my interest as chairman of the Reserve Forces 2030 review. If we are to mee...

I thank my noble friend for his interest in and continued focus on reserves. I also thank him for...

My Lords, as president of the CBI, I can say that industry welcomes the new defence and security ...

The last point the noble Lord alluded to is very important. Yes, I agree, and we hope that that i...

My Lords, I welcome the integrated review and the defence papers that have come from it; that sho...

The strategy lays out a clear basis for how we will engage not just with our companies at home bu...

My Lords, it is all very well for the Government to tell us that there will be opportunities for ...

The sort of scenario to which my noble friend refers may well have happened in the past—but that ...

My Lords, I am afraid that the time allocated for this Statement is now up; my apologies to the s...