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Lords Chamber
Situation in the Red Sea - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) starting to have an impact on European markets and, by definition, it must be having an impact on the manufacturing - Speech Link
2: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) However, it is the decision of each individual sovereign state to decide at what level they wish to become - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) At the same time, we are looking at disrupting the manufacturing capability behind this, which of course - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) One can see why there may be some reticence for sovereign states to get involved in more direct action - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine: Military Equipment - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) The UK will also co-lead an international capability coalition, alongside Latvia, to supply cutting-edge - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) that has been provided into targeted and effective capability on the frontline. - Speech Link
3: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) What can we do to speed up the process of collaboration in manufacturing in Ukraine between British and - Speech Link
4: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) The UK is lucky to have a strong, sovereign space industry, supporting defence in the civil sector. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Steel Industry: Wales - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) to accelerate a £3 billion green steel fund to invest over the next five years in the future of our sovereign - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) We must retain our strong and viable steel industry because our automotive, defence, renewable and construction - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon Central) public investment into the steel industry without any improvement in the sector or any increase in capability - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon Central) Is the Minister concerned about our defence capabilities if we lose the capacity to make steel here from - Speech Link
5: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) First, less than 1% of UK steel is needed by the defence industry, and it has nothing to do with Port - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: James Heappey (Con - Wells) of ammunition in particular, it is clear that European manufacturing capacity is not yet at even half - Speech Link
2: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) What assessment he has made of trends in levels of employment in the defence manufacturing sector in - Speech Link
3: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) My Tewkesbury constituency contains a lot of aerospace manufacturing, particularly for the defence sectors - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Arabia and Egypt, given the crisis in the middle east; HMS Diamond, to thank the ship’s crew; and our sovereign - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) What assurances can we have that these hugely expensive carriers will provide the defence capability - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) G7 leaders have already agreed that sovereign assets should remain frozen until Russia compensates Ukraine.I - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) capability and defence industrial capacity. - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) What systems we invest in is a matter for the capability managers in the Ministry of Defence. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) Friend the Secretary of State for Defence how the west is facing “a pre-war world”. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon Central) the job, leaving the UK with a stunted second-tier industrial base, the only G20 country lacking a sovereign - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We will continue to have significant steelmaking capability in the UK, including producing materials - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The Government maintain that we want to ensure that we keep steelmaking capability in the UK. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Protecting Steel in the UK - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) A strong—or at least “in existence”—steelmaking industry is a core part of our nation’s defence capability - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) capability to make virgin steel. - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) capability to make virgin steel. - Speech Link
4: Khalid Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Perry Barr) If we do not do so, we will not be able to meet our defence, engineering and manufacturing commitments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We will ensure that our support offer for SMEs will help firms build their capability to import and export - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) see multinational corporations and investment funds of such a size that they have more power than a sovereign - Speech Link
3: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) Secretary of State to seek specific confirmation of the Government’s position on a virgin steelmaking sovereign - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) The fact is that the UK has overtaken France to become the world’s eighth-largest manufacturing nation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) more, and deserved so much more.Tax reliefs are a proven road to putting a rocket under an industry’s capability - Speech Link
2: Lord Harrington of Watford (Con - Life peer) However, the evidence we got from interviewing more than 200 companies—sovereign wealth funds, pension - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) A precondition for a successful transition is the existence of an adjacent industry for manufacturing - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Yes, there are some good parts—the 110 growth measures, the work capability assessments to get people - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) unleash fresh horrors on Ukraine, still shows contempt for international law, and still wants to redraw sovereign - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) the pipeline that we now have in place to deliver every month, not only from our own stockpiles and manufacturing - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) Ukraine’s military planning must reflect manufacturing capacity and stockpiles across the donor community - Speech Link
4: James Heappey (Con - Wells) We have been the first to go through every capability threshold; they know that and they continue to - Speech Link