Armed Forces Bill

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to join you in Committee this afternoon to discuss amendments to...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for seeing me and my noble friend Lady Smith yesterday, when we ha...

My Lords, in the light of the very full observations made by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresf...

My Lords, I will contribute briefly. I will not say this every time, but of course I start by dec...

My Lords, as we begin Committee on this important legislation, I stress to all sides that we must...

First, I thank your Lordships for your contributions. I will start by responding to the noble Lor...

My Lords, I admire the loyalty expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Lancaster, who is concerned abou...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Gresford

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My Lords, prior to 2006, charges of murder, manslaughter and rape committed in the United Kingdom...

I fully support the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, on the first of these amendments but, be...

My Lords, I shall speak to my contention that Clause 7 should not stand part. It is a probing ame...

My Lords, the two proposals before the Committee in this group have the same aim: so far as serio...

My Lords, I start my first contribution in Committee by thanking the Minister and her officials f...

My Lords, I beg the Committee’s indulgence. This is my first time back in this Room, and I am afr...

First, I want to thank your Lordships for what has been a profound and stimulating discussion. I ...

I seem to have lost the sound.

My Lords, it might help if everybody knew that the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, who is intending...

I shall leave that to those who are much more technically gifted than I am to resolve.

I sa...

On the point about circuit judges being allowed to try these very serious offences, will they be ...

The noble and learned Lord makes a good point. Obviously at the heart of this is making the servi...

I want to ask about two matters. First, I raised the point about judicial review but I also raise...

I certainly undertake to look at Hansard and endeavour to frame a response to the noble and learn...

I am grateful to the Minister for the very careful and thorough way she addressed these amendment...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

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“(d) a releva...

We are getting used to various constituencies. I expect the Minister to come forward with Scottis...

Does the noble Lord intend to move his amendment?

I apologise—I thought I had. I beg to move.

My Lords, I first apologise for the technical glitch. This is the first week of new remote contri...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 65 and to Amendment 64. Like my noble friend Lady Brinton,...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to this group. I have no fundamental objection in principle to ex...

I must apologise for not being here at Second Reading when I was unable to come over from Norther...

Once again, I thank noble Lords for a stimulating and interesting debate. I appreciate the contri...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I refer her back to her earlier comments about the addit...

As the noble and gallant Lord knows, I have the greatest respect for him. I have no doubt whateve...

Before the Minister sits down, I thank her for everything she said and for being so open-minded. ...

I can understand why the noble Viscount articulates that point. If we draw a distinction between ...

I thank the Minister for a very constructive reply. While she was responding, I looked again at t...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

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“(za) the Sec...

This amendment again applies to the covenant. I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, an...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 9. As the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, has already said, ...

My Lords, I have put my name to the amendment because I think it is extremely important. The cove...

I endorse what the noble and learned Lord has been saying about what was known as Gulf War syndro...

My Lords, I shall be extremely brief because we have had contributions from all parts of the Hous...

My Lords, again this has been a fascinating debate and I arise with trepidation when one of the c...

My Lords, I never mentioned negligence. I am not suggesting for a minute that there was necessari...

I am very grateful to my noble and learned friend for expanding that further. I understand the po...

My Lords, the noble Baroness’s thinking has not necessary moved on very much from Second Reading,...

With the greatest respect, that might seem a tempting analysis of the situation, but the bottom l...

I thank the Minister for her reply. She is in a bit of trouble on this one. Logically, I do not t...

Moved by

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton

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