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1: None The Bill reflects that Parliament is sovereign and can change domestic law as it sees fit, including, - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The Bill reflects that Parliament is sovereign and can change domestic law as it sees fit, including, - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) responds, the Minister explains why several noble and gallant Members of this House—former Chiefs of the Defence - Speech Link
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1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) weeks ago, it is absolutely no justification for launching more than 300 drones and missiles from one sovereign - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes, for Ukraine not only to win the war but to emerge as a strong sovereign - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Regardless, there can never be any justification for a sovereign country launching over 300 drones and - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) capability, it is a key capability that we need to invest in, and ideally we need to produce more of - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) I believe that we should be bold and pursue all routes through which immobilised Russian sovereign assets - Speech Link
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1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) It is very important that we have a strong defence basis; there is no question about that. - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (Lab - Life peer) We need sovereign capability and resilience, and I have a feeling that we will be relying on France and - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) All I can say, as I said earlier, is that 1% of defence requirement is provided by UK steel. - Speech Link
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1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Lady about the importance of sovereign defence capability, and not just because of the economic benefits - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) What assessment he has made of the security of the sovereign base areas and the armed forces in Cyprus - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The SBAs are sovereign bases, so of course we reserve the right to operate from them as needed, based - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Of course, training is fundamental to bringing in the next generation to man our capability. - Speech Link
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1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) That has proved a timely intervention, placing more emphasis on building sovereign capacity and greater - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) all the issues I have mentioned, we must also increase our fundamental defence production capability - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) The defence equipment plan is the 10-year programme for the capability that the MOD says it requires - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) There is also sometimes a risk to our own sovereign capability and the longevity of some of our defence - Speech Link
5: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) It shows why I want to see us supporting our sovereign capability, because where the Spitfire was there - Speech Link
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1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) The police force, the justice system and defence have been criminally underfunded. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) I read in the newspapers that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is examining the capability - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) budget to give greater certainty about operational capability. - Speech Link
4: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) Pension and insurance funds have trillions ready to invest, and so do the sovereign wealth funds of other - Speech Link
5: Lord Tugendhat (Con - Life peer) In the defence debate last September, I called for a start to be made in increasing defence expenditure - Speech Link
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1: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) Another crucial part of the international agreement is that the UK Government, being the sovereign Government - Speech Link
2: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) Ireland’s significant defence industries into the rest of the defence structure of the United Kingdom - Speech Link
3: Lord Udny-Lister (Con - Life peer) We must now ensure that our naval capacity and capability is equally distributed around the shores of - Speech Link
4: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) During that period, the sovereign Parliament at Westminster exercised a self-denying ordinance: although - Speech Link
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1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) from both the Labour and Conservative Front-Bench teams and making decisions for ourselves as a fully sovereign - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Those of us who come from that generation look at our defence spending and preparedness with horror. - Speech Link
3: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) That premise is almost exclusively quoted during debates relating to the defence of the realm, yet it - Speech Link
4: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Job coaches with minimal training are not the best people to assess work capability. - Speech Link
5: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) I like to talk about Norway, too, and the fact that it has a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund, which - Speech Link
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1: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel; secondly, there is a backlog at Rafah—there are columns of trucks in sovereign - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) said many times at this Dispatch Box already, what matters is whether it has the commitment and the capability - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Austin, said, Israel has a right to self-defence. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) My Lords, in 2022 the then Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, told the International Relations and Defence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) What risk analysis has the MoD undertaken to assess the value of high-capability platforms versus airframe - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The key is that, as the threat changes, we need to change the capability to meet it. - Speech Link