Integrated Review Refresh

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to respond to questions following the Foreign Secretary’s St...

My Lords, an effective strategy requires a sensible balance between ends, ways and means. The int...

My Lords, it is not true that these are vague aspirations. I think I said in response to the nobl...

My Lords, I welcome the Statement, but like others, I am slightly concerned about the gap between...

On the financial commitment, I will just clarify that the extra £5 billion for defence is in addi...

My Lords, I too welcome the integrated review and note that paragraph 28 on page 28 confirms the ...

My Lords, first, I simply reiterate that the IDS—the international development strategy—remains o...

My Lords, this paper is a great improvement on its predecessor. I agree with the comments of my n...

Not only do I agree that it is a short and medium-term top priority but I think that is reflected...

My Lords, the Statement says that we

“enjoy thriving relationships with countries in the mi...

My Lords, the noble Baroness is right that a Foreign Office Minister made representations before ...

My Lords, can the Minister make a clarification? In his answer to my question, he said that the G...

I think what I said was that the firm commitment related to the £5 billion over the next two year...

Yes.

In that case, it is a goal. The language that has been used is that it is a goal to get to 2.5%, ...

My Lords, there are a number of questions that the Minister did not answer. I hope he can get his...

I feel I have been hurling answers across the Chamber, but clearly I have not answered all the qu...