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Westminster Hall
Use of Drones in Defence - Wed 03 Sep 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) chains and logistics, with Ukraine using ground drones to move ammunition and other supplies to the - Speech Link
2: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) First-person view drones have quickly become a stalwart of the modern battlefield and sit within what - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Drones are used in search and rescue and managing public disorder. - Speech Link
4: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) Drones depend on data links—radio or satellite based—and GPS signals to navigate and communicate. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) prevention and conflict resolution and in supporting allies to build resilient civil societies and institutions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) is also essential for peacekeeping work and conflict prevention. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) In Ukraine, drones and automation have transformed warfare, and speed of adaptation gives a decisive - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the conflict in Israel, Gaza and the Middle East.The noble Lord and his colleagues were also hampered - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Of course we need more attack and surveillance drones, and we need to develop our small and medium-sized - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Julie Minns (Lab - Carlisle) And what a monument it will be: traditional in appearance, yet utilising modern AI technology to bring - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) His father served as an organist and choirmaster at St Michael and All Angels church in Pelsall, and - Speech Link
3: James Asser (Lab - West Ham and Beckton) He spent the rest of the conflict as a prisoner of war, and survived. - Speech Link
4: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) of this debate, the era of modern warfare—where satellites and drones can scrutinise enemy positions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
RAF E-7 Wedgetail Programme - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) Airborne radar and comms are today’s air war essentials, as vital to modern air forces as the Rolls-Royce - Speech Link
2: Luke Akehurst (Lab - North Durham) sea, to dominate the modern battlespace.Wedgetail scans the battlefield using advanced radar and sensors - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) Across the world, whether it is in Ukraine or in the brief conflict between Pakistan and India recently - Speech Link
4: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) As a battle of Britain buff, I enjoyed his historical analogies with that epic conflict in 1940 and the - Speech Link
5: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois), of what might happen in the event of a conflict means - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK–EU Defence and Security Co-operation - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, on 19 May, the UK and the EU agreed a landmark security and defence partnership, delivering - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) My Lords, with drones increasingly revolutionising modern warfare, is it not essential that the UK and - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) conflict in Ukraine, whether they be surveillance drones, one-way drones or any other sort of attack - Speech Link
4: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) challenge to our security and prosperity and where our attention should be diverted. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Armaments Director - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) With war waging in Ukraine, the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict and with what is now happening in Iran, - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) Pentagon has labelled the E-7 “expensive”, “gold-plated” and“not survivable in the modern battlefield - Speech Link
3: Neil Shastri-Hurst (Con - Solihull West and Shirley) to fill.Let us be frank: foreign aid and defence are not in conflict. - Speech Link
4: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) From submarines to drones, Derby has a major role to play in supporting the Government in making and - Speech Link
5: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) We have seen high-tech systems—drones, cyber, space and stealth—undergo a baptism of fire. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Armed Forces Recruitment: North-east England - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Alan Strickland (Lab - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) That is because we need to defend and deter across the five domains of modern warfare— air, land, sea - Speech Link
2: Alan Strickland (Lab - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) Also, let us look at the opportunities to retrain and reskill our existing personnel, so that our modern - Speech Link
3: Lewis Atkinson (Lab - Sunderland Central) I absolutely do, and that applies to both the regular forces and, for example, the cadets and reserves - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
2nd reading - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) I start with a quote:“Conflict is not uncommon between those in both the public and private sectors who - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) demands that we face, from improving regional connectivity to meeting the needs of a growing and modern - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) In war, they will make easy targets in this era of cyber conflict and drones. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to recognise the modern world.Echoing the national security strategy and our need to fight on home soil - Speech Link
5: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) and environmental legislation that is overlapping and in conflict. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hydrogen-powered Aviation - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) These projects show the huge potential of this fuel to take aviation into the modern era of low and zero-emission - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) While hydrogen fuel cells offer lower energy losses and may suit smaller aircraft or drones, it is pure - Speech Link
3: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab - North Somerset) that maintains the affordability and accessibility of the modern aviation industry. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strategic Defence Review - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) And yet it is true that some of the best long-range one-way attack drones used in Ukraine have not been - Speech Link
2: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) We have entered a new era—one defined by international instability, geopolitical conflict and global - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) I have been around long enough to have seen the words “review”, “defence”, “strategic” andmodern” used - Speech Link
4: John Healey (Lab - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough) It reinforces regional deterrence and makes conflict less likely, not more likely. - Speech Link