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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) I do not want to tread on his toes, but we will put ourselves at his disposal to offer whatever help - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) seeks to undermine that progress by: introducing a brand new tax on residents to have their garden waste - Speech Link
3: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) increasing wages sufficiently—to ensure that the Navy can manage ships, the Air Force can maintain its aircraft - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) high-tech motors, including for Royal Navy ships, such as Type 26 frigates and Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) by over 43,000 personnel; the number of Royal Navy warships has decreased by a fifth; more than 200 aircraft - Speech Link
3: Khalid Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Perry Barr) Notwithstanding the waste of £5 billion in procurement since 2019, will the Minister join the shadow - Speech Link
4: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) The 2016 better defence estate plans earmarked Fort Blockhouse in Gosport for disposal, yet eight years - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Brutal dictators with powerful weapons at their disposal are on the rise. - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) You spend all this money and waste money there. What are you offering me? It’s not worth it.” - Speech Link
3: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) first, the hollowing out and underfunding of our armed forces; secondly, defence mismanagement and waste - Speech Link
4: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) country spent 2.5% of GDP on defence was in 2010, under a Labour Government.I turn to mismanagement and waste - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Acquisition Reform - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None largely civilian sphere, a defence-wide portfolio approach will bring together all the expertise at our disposal - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) In the past 14 years, £15 billion of taxpayers’ money has gone to waste, £5 billion in this Parliament - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) equipment, and they do take a long time to bring to fruition—particularly some of the larger ships and aircraft - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) I assure noble Lords that we are using every diplomatic lever at our disposal to pressure the Houthis - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) However, something tells me that the Budget tomorrow will not restore this and that he would waste his - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) I speak, we are reducing our defence in terms of numbers of troops, numbers of ships and numbers of aircraft - Speech Link
4: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) “Why not turn this waste to good?” they thought. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) This will mean maximising effectively all levers at our disposal: military, economic, diplomatic, social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 21 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) More than 200 aircraft have been taken out of RAF service in the last five years alone. - Speech Link
2: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (LAB - Life peer) We would have factories turning out ammunition, using every single weapon at our disposal, rallying every - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) carriers, which is almost bereft of aircraft. - Speech Link
4: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) Agency, Ukraine has substantial renewable energy potential, including significant biomass resources and waste - Speech Link
5: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) We use every conduit at our disposal to encourage, influence and galvanise global allies. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The headline was that it can eliminate 70% of emissions from aircraft operations without using electric - Speech Link
2: None would be, or would at any time have been, a relevant disposal site but for section 7B(5)(a) (nuclear - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nuclear Energy - Thu 07 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) Concern is often rightly expressed about disposal of the small amounts of radioactive waste produced - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) come to dominate both in civil nuclear power stations and in military applications in submarines and aircraft - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) Also, the accumulation of nuclear waste continues to draw criticism due to a lack of disposal solutions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Productivity - Thu 29 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (CON - Life peer) just heard, we have a central bank that has a target for inflation and uses the instruments at its disposal - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) the unreality and carelessness of Truss’s programme was her proposal to cut £11 billion in Whitehall waste - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) This is a criminal waste of potential and it is holding the UK back.It is not just educational inequalities - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) Our advanced manufacturing industries produce half the world’s large aircraft wings. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Global Military Operations - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (LAB - Wentworth and Dearne) Since 2010, we have seen Ministers waste at least £15 billion of taxpayers’ money through MOD mismanagement - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) Given the through-life costs of hundreds of billions of pounds, nuclear waste disposal, rising sea levels - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (LAB - Caerphilly) I welcome the fact that the Navy has two ships permanently in the region and that the aircraft carrier - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) Thirdly, and above all else, however capable an aircraft, it cannot be in two places at once. - Speech Link