"Are the efforts to build a joint plan with the Welsh Government going well? Is there a good working relationship between the Department and the Welsh Government?..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is there any way we can get a Minister from the Department for Education to the Chamber to explain the extraordinary attack in The Spectator blog this afternoon on the former Minister with responsibility for children, the hon. Member for East Worthing …..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"T2. Given the Government’s plans to impose the bedroom tax on the parents of serving soldiers, will the Secretary of State at least undertake to invest the Department’s forecast underspend in forces’ welfare, rather than returning it to the Treasury?..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"On defence contracts, will the MOD’s current plans inevitably result in more contracts for companies such as G4S?..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"May I record my concern at the loss of one of the battalions from the Royal Welsh? Will the Secretary of State tell the House plainly and without obfuscation how many soldiers are likely to be made redundant as a result of today’s announcement, and of them how many will …..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"May I associate myself with what the Defence Secretary and the shadow Defence Secretary said about the operation itself? The Secretary of State gave us some detail about the timeline of events, but he did not give us the exact time at which our ambassador in Rome informed the Italian …..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"8. What assessment he has made of the co-operation on training and support of British armed forces with armed forces in the middle east and north Africa; and if he will make a statement...." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"Have British armed forces played any role in the training of forces involved in repression in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain?..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"May I clarify that the Secretary of State has told the House today that his officials were, on his instructions, routinely giving out details of his ministerial diary to Adam Werritty, who then passed on that information to the people sat next to him at a dinner table in Dubai? …..." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech
"16. What recent assessment he has made of how the commitments in the strategic defence and security review are to be funded from his Department’s budget settlement...." Lord Brennan of Canton - View Speech