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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill

"My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord West, I speak to Amendment 14. I strongly support this amendment. Torture, genocide and other crimes identified in the laws of conflict should never be subject to doubt that they are not fundamental to the way in which our Armed Forces are expected …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill

"My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 29 and I support this important safeguard for service personnel. As has been mentioned, not all disabilities are immediately self-evident. Medical advances and associating clinical problems with mental or slowly developing illnesses are helping to explain and track the trigger to events not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Feb 2021
Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2021

"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the interesting speech of the noble Lord, Lord Lancaster, who holds the rank of brigadier, and to give my support to this draft order. The House will shortly be debating the quinquennial renewal Bill, which will be an opportunity to consider in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2021
Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill

"My Lords, I shall concentrate on Clause 12. The international court will accept that it is primarily a matter for the state requiring derogation to judge the imminence and severity of the threat faced. But the court is not going to give a free pass. Has the state gone beyond …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2020
UN Mission in Mali: Armed Forces Deployment

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that more than 200 MINUSMA troops have been killed and others wounded? This deployment to a faraway country of which we know little is risky. For the record, and to reassure the families and loved ones of any UK casualty, will the Minister explain …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2020
Covid-19: Military Operations and Support

"My Lords, in order to observe social distancing, were service personnel required to vacate their accommodation and expected to sleep elsewhere? What steps were taken to cancel accommodation costs and refund inevitable transport costs for those so instructed?..."
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Written Question
Sentinel Aircraft
Monday 22nd June 2020

Asked by: Lord Craig of Radley (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Goldie on 10 June (HL4948), what assessment they have made of extending the use of Sentinel beyond 2021; and whether this will be included in this year's Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Answered by Baroness Goldie - Shadow Minister (Defence)

Sentinel's radar and mission system are now increasingly obsolescent and will face increasing reliability issues as time progresses. Retaining the capability would have required significant upgrade expenditure and the March 2021 out of service date (OSD) has been retained. It is necessary to retire certain capabilities at planned OSDs to allow re-investment in future capability.

Written Question
Sentinel Aircraft
Wednesday 10th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Craig of Radley (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the use of the Sentinel aircraft system beyond 2021 for ongoing operations in (1) the Middle East, and (2) elsewhere.

Answered by Baroness Goldie - Shadow Minister (Defence)

The Out of Service Date for Sentinel was set at March 2021 in Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, this remains the case.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 May 2020
Covid-19: Security Risks

"My Lords, NATO’s Rapid Air Mobility initiative, RAM, was activated by the North Atlantic Council on 31 March to help the movement of supplies critical to combating Covid-19. Have many flights by RAF transport aircraft been made in support of RAM? Were last month’s RAF A400M Atlas transportations of personal …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2020

"My Lords, I support this renewal of the Armed Forces Act. In previous debates on renewing the Act, I have taken the opportunity to raise the thorny issue of combat immunity and the failure of successive Administrations to provide clear statutory authority and legal guidance on how difficulties that arise …..."
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