Armed Forces: Resilience

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hintze, in his maiden speech. I a...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Robathan, for securing this important debate...

My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Robathan, for this very timely debate. I commend the n...

My Lords, I want to speak for the first time in this House on such an important topic, introduced...

My Lords, it is my privilege and great pleasure, on behalf of the whole House, to express our war...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Robathan for introducing this debate. I agree wit...

My Lords, I start by offering my own mixture of welcome and congratulations to our two maiden spe...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Robathan on securing this debate. It has been punct...

My Lords, on 28 November, just under two months ago, I sat opposite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at...

My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in a debate where there are not one, but two, maiden spe...

My Lords, I was expecting not to need to declare any interests this afternoon. Unlike most noble ...

A likely tale.

I will move on, having declared the interest of being at Cambridge University.

Like all nob...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important debate and I tha...

My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Robathan for enabling this important, constructiv...

Before the Minister sits down, could I urge her, in this electronic age, to copy any letters to e...

I will be delighted to do that. As your Lordships will have realised, such was the breadth and sc...

My Lords, first, I thank everyone who participated in the debate, and pay tribute to my noble fri...