Mentions:
1: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) European defence spending needs to go up, not because Russia threatens Europe but because Europe and - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) procurement, defence co-operation and defence purchasing? - Speech Link
3: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) The fact is that we have run our defence down over decades and we have now been found out, and in the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) Ukraine is a sovereign country; it has chosen a western-facing route, whether or not it will be a NATO - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) In Canada, we discussed where we can go further to target Russia’s energy and defence sectors, further - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Gentleman for raising the issue of Iran’s desire to have nuclear capability. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) The defence offered for the existing system, I submit, is not sustainable. - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Is this a sufficiently thoughtful and strategic way of building the necessary capability for this House - Speech Link
3: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) The Prime Minister would not be able to recommend Peers to the sovereign where the commission has deemed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) We need to build our own defence capacity and reset our relationship. - Speech Link
2: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) Do we have the industrial muscle still to rebuild our defence industries? - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) We need a stronger defence and an independent nuclear deterrent. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) work with the US to deepen our defence ties. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) years ago, I was dealing with a problem with a high street bank debanking a business in the wider defence - Speech Link
2: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) The sovereign, the King, creates Members of your Lordships’ House. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) Handing HOLAC, an unelected body, the role of recommending new life peerages directly to the sovereign - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) If the UK’s future defence capability, strategy, deterrence and engagement are to command the respect - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) The concept of having total defence against this kind of warfare, total defence in terms of mobilising - Speech Link
3: Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con - Life peer) EU cohesion funds need to be repurposed for defence, and defence spending needs to be exempted from the - Speech Link
4: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) One is President Putin, who reached his own conclusions about NATO’s true deterrent capability, a capability - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It pointed out the need, as many noble Lords have done, for homeland defence, defence of critical national - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has this week announced the stepping back of US counter-cyber - Speech Link
2: Peter Prinsley (Lab - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) the Minister agree that it is in our eternal interests for there to be security in Europe and a sovereign - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) ��[Official Report, 3 March 2025; Vol. 763, c. 25.]We are stepping up on defence and security, and we - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Is that fund not a classic example of how development complements defence demonstrably and effectively - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) The people who attack us are rapidly improving their capability, and we must be on top of it. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rosie Wrighting (Lab - Kettering) Given the Prime Minister’s recent announcements, and our increased defence spending, does my right hon - Speech Link
2: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) Even as this Government’s industrial strategy is being shaped, defence is now the utmost priority. - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) I join Opposition Members in thanking her son for his service in the defence of our nation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) Prime Minister said at the Dispatch Box that our economy is security, and security starts with our defence - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) We will lose tens of thousands of jobs, tens of billions of pounds in tax, and the engineering capability - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) In December, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund touched €1.7 trillion, but Scotland is no wealthier now in - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) The need to rebuild our military capability and our hard power as this decade goes on, if we are to ensure - Speech Link
5: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Gentleman would again leap to the defence of Liz Truss, as he did just last week. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) , the defence of our values, and the defence of our friends seriously. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Does he agree that in ramping up our defence spending, we have to look at defence procurement, so that - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Part of sovereignty is deciding for yourself what your defence capability is. - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) As we ramp up defence spending and capability, we should be looking at it predominantly supporting UK - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) , and the best capability. - Speech Link
6: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) , and the best capability. - Speech Link