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Written Question
Armed Forces: Mesothelioma
Monday 29th February 2016

Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to reform compensation for armed forces veterans affected by mesothelioma.

Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) to question number 903759.

Written Question
Ministry of Defence: Research
Thursday 3rd December 2015

Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of his Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.

Answered by Philip Dunne

I refer the hon. Member to para 6.44 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 (Cm9161) for the proportion of our defence budget dedicated to science and technology.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What plans he has to strengthen the armed forces covenant...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"More than 20,000 skilled men and women, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, leave the armed forces each year. What steps are the Government taking to ensure that local skills and economic strategies work effectively to realise the full potential of that highly trained, well disciplined and adaptable …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2014
Afghanistan

"We should be proud that millions of Afghan girls are now in school and that thousands of women are doctors, teachers and politicians, but Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. Many women in public life there pay with their lives. In …..."
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