Information between 25th April 2022 - 14th April 2024
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Oral Answers to Questions
144 speeches (10,107 words) Monday 25th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Lady about the importance of sovereign defence capability, and not just because of the economic benefits - Link to Speech |
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Steel Industry: Contribution to the UK Economy
59 speeches (14,811 words) Wednesday 25th January 2023 - Westminster Hall Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Mentions: 1: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) The situation has made us refocus on the importance of our own sovereign defence capability and the need - Link to Speech |
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Fleet Solid Support Ships
19 speeches (1,580 words) Tuesday 22nd November 2022 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) Time and again, Parliament has called for the UK Government to fully support our sovereign defence capability - Link to Speech |
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Britain’s Industrial Future
145 speeches (29,878 words) Tuesday 15th November 2022 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Mentions: 1: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) Investing in sovereign defence capability is a matter of national security as well as being good for - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 18th October 2022
Oral Evidence - Professor Malcom Chalmers, Hans Kundnani, and Sophia Gaston The future UK-EU relationship - European Affairs Committee Found: Sophia Gaston: First up, the reality is that the EU has turbo -charged its sovereign defence capability |
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Tuesday 18th October 2022
Oral Evidence - Professor Malcom Chalmers, and Sophia Gaston The future UK-EU relationship - European Affairs Committee Found: Sophia Gaston: First up, the reality is that the EU has turbo-charged its sovereign defence capability |
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Sunday 14th March 2021
Inquiry Publications - Fifth report: Obsolescent and outgunned: the British Army’s armoured vehicle capability Progress in delivering the British Army’s armoured vehicle capability - Defence Committee Found: Only with a prosperous domestic sovereign defence capability can the UK continue to bene˚t from defence |
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Tuesday 13th October 2020
Written Evidence - Airbus FSC0004 - Foreign Involvement in the Defence Supply Chain Foreign Involvement in the Defence Supply Chain - Defence Committee Found: This includes ensuring the complete security and integrity of our sovereign defence capability.2. |
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Wednesday 30th September 2020
Written Evidence - Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) AVF0013 - Progress in delivering the British Army’s armoured vehicle capability Progress in delivering the British Army’s armoured vehicle capability - Defence Committee Found: Only with a prosperous domestic sovereign defence capability can the UK continue to benefit from defence |
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Wednesday 6th May 2020
Written Evidence - Leonardo MW Ltd DIP0012 - Defence industrial policy: procurement and prosperity Defence industrial policy: procurement and prosperity - Defence Committee Found: be absolutely at the top of the agenda; this would give a new perspective on the value STEM in a sovereign |
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Maritime Patrol Aircraft
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham) Monday 25th April 2022 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the UK's sovereign defence capability in relation to Maritime Patrol Aircraft. Answered by Jeremy Quin The RAF's fleet of Poseidon aircraft is now meeting the UK's Maritime Patrol Aircraft requirements. I refer the Rt hon. Gentleman to the Answer provided to him by the then Minister for Defence Procurement (Harriett Baldwin) on 14 March 2017, to question 67302. |
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Wednesday 2nd November Fleet Solid Support ship contract 8 signatures (Most recent: 4 Sep 2023)Tabled by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham) That this house believes that the Fleet Solid Support Ship is a warship; contends that UK warships should be designed, built and maintained in UK shipyards in order to strengthen sovereign defence capability and ensure national security considerations are met; welcomes the plethora of economic and social benefits that could … |
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Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham) - @KevanJonesMP
16 Nov 2022, 12:57 p.m. These are precisely the ‘press release work share’ jobs that the Defence Secretary himself cautioned against last week. It is not building sovereign defence capability, the skills base or the supply chain resilience that the government says it is committed to. Link to Original Tweet |
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Jack Lopresti (Conservative - Filton and Bradley Stoke) - @JackLopresti
15 Jul 2022, 5:40 p.m. Really great to catch up with my friends from @BoeingUK today at @airtattoo where we discussed our UK Sovereign Defence Capability and local jobs. Also had meetings with @AirbusintheUK, @ElbitSystemsLtd and @AeralisJet. https://t.co/3yHYzcfCiW Link to Original Tweet |
| Department Publications - Guidance |
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Thursday 15th February 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: Consolidated budgeting guidance 2024 to 2025 Document: Consolidated budgeting guidance: 2024-25 (PDF) Found: ) . 3.26 In departmental budgets, where a contract or programme involving the development of a sovereign |
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Monday 13th March 2023
HM Treasury Source Page: Consolidated budgeting guidance 2023 to 2024 Document: Consolidated budgeting guidance: 2023-24 (PDF) Found: Added guidance on depreciation when using one asset to construct another in a contract/programme for sovereign |
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Friday 14th April 2023
Ministry of Defence Source Page: Major funding boost to progress future fighter jet programme Document: Major funding boost to progress future fighter jet programme (webpage) Found: These are critical to the UK’s sovereign defence capability and will help shape the final requirements |