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Written Question
Chinook Helicopters: Accidents
Tuesday 9th April 2024

Asked by: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Lord Speaker - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will release the documents relating to the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.

Answered by Earl of Minto - Shadow Minister (Defence)

I refer the Noble Lord to the answers given by my Right Honourable Friend, The Minister for Defence People and Families, in the other place on 26 February 2024 (UIN 13866) and on 15 March 2024 (UIN 17490).

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 11 Sep 2017
Student Loans: Interest Rates

"My Lords, can my noble friend explain why the Government cut the discount rate—their own measure of the liability for the public—arguing that they were able to borrow money more cheaply, and at the same time hugely increased the interest rate that students have to pay? Given that three-quarters of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 22 Jun 2017
Queen’s Speech

"That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty as follows:

“Most Gracious Sovereign—We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, beg leave to thank Your Majesty for the most gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament”...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Oct 2016
Royal Yacht

"

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they are giving to commissioning a new Royal Yacht...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Oct 2016
Royal Yacht

"My Lords, that is a very disappointing Answer. When I was Secretary of State, I hosted a dinner on the royal yacht in Toronto to which we invited the top industrialists, who flew thousands of miles to be there. I did not think they were coming to see me. Given …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 May 2016
Queen’s Speech

"I am most grateful to my noble friend. I wonder whether she recalls telling the House:

“In setting out requirements for the Government to provide information, we must clearly set out a distinction between what the Government should provide and what will be the role of the designated lead campaigners. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 May 2016
Queen’s Speech

"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow my noble friend Lady Perry in her valedictory speech. I know that all Members of the House are well aware of her very distinguished career in education. She was a great Chief Inspector of Schools and of course she was the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 May 2016
Queen’s Speech

"I am a fly fisherman; would that raising a fish was as easy as it was with the Chief Whip.

The gracious Speech is the matter we are here to debate, and there were many things in it that I thought exciting. As a former Prisons Minister, I think that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 May 2016
Queen’s Speech

"I am most grateful to my noble friend. I think it is the vector autoregression model that is used. If everyone uses the same model and the same assumptions, it is hardly surprising that we get the same conclusions. He said that the document was objective. How was it, then, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 26 Oct 2015
Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

"The leader of the Liberal party described this House as,

“a system which is rotten to the core and allows unelected, unaccountable people to think they are above the law”.

Does my noble friend think that the Liberals wish us to vote for their Motion in order to prove their …..."
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