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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last week, three rockets struck the US embassy compound in Baghdad, leaving one person injured. In the light of increased tensions following the US action against Qasem Soleimani, will the Minister tell us what measures are being taken to reduce the risk to our troops in the region, and will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Oct 2019
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"We all know about the Government’s disastrous record on recruitment of UK personnel, with the fully trained size of the Army, as we have already heard, having now just fallen to 74,000 personnel. But the Government are failing to recruit enough Commonwealth troops, too, and we now hear that they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jul 2019
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"All of us on the Opposition Benches were heartened to hear the Defence Secretary say recently of the Ministry of Defence that

“we can and we must buy British”.

That would represent a welcome shift from her predecessor’s tendency to simply buy off the shelf from abroad, but the British …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Jun 2019
Combat Air Strategy

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone; I notice there has just been a change of Chair, and I thank your predecessor for the good work he did for us as well.

I congratulate the hon. Member for Witney (Robert Courts) on tabling and introducing this …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Jun 2019
Combat Air Strategy

"We are trying to do something about it...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 May 2019
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"Last week, the British deputy commander of Operation Inherent Resolve stated that

“there has been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria.”

He was then rebuked by US Central Command. The Foreign Secretary later went on to declare that the UK and the US share

“the same …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Mar 2019
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"I apologise to the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) for intervening before he had the chance to ask his question. At Defence questions on 18 February, I asked the Minister about the black soldiers of the East Africa Force, formed in 1940, after an investigation revealed that they were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Feb 2019
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"A recent investigation has revealed that black African soldiers in the East Africa Force, formed in 1940, which encompassed thousands of troops drawn from the British colonies and current Commonwealth countries, were paid only a third of the wage received by their white counterparts. Will the Minister tell the House …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
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"Following Turkish President Erdoğan’s refusal to meet US National Security Adviser John Bolton in Ankara last week to discuss the future of the Kurdish YPG forces fighting Daesh in Syria, is the Secretary of State worried that the withdrawal of US forces from Syria will allow Turkey to crush the …..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 6th December 2018

Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2018 to Question 157650 on Nuclear Weapons: Safety, when he plans to write to the hon. Member for Leeds North East with the requested information.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

I wrote to the hon. Member on 20 August 2018 and a copy of my letter was placed in the Library of the House (Deposit ref: DEP2018-0862).

A copy of my letter is attached.