Results 1-20 of 2,038 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Julian Brazier

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Devolution (4 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: What recent assessment he has made of the progress of devolution of responsibility for criminal justice and policing to the Northern Ireland Assembly; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Devolution (4 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: Is the Secretary of State satisfied that in no circumstances will intelligence-gathering be compromised under any possible devolution?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Banking Reform (3 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: Does not yet another expensive restructuring announcement highlight the weaknesses in the tripartite system for supervising banking and, indeed, monetary policy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: European Council (2 Nov 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: The Prime Minister made one passing reference to allied troop contributions to Afghanistan. May I ask him whether he asked the Germans and other allies who already have troops there when they are planning to deploy them forward to the sharp end?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: May I endorse the point that the Minister has been extremely generous in giving his time to the all-party group? We all welcome the frank exchanges there.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: That is not the view taken by the vast majority of TA officers. In practice, it means that lance corporals and privates get creamed off, and most places that are available to officers do not involve command and are of a fairly lowly nature.

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: My hon. Friend is making a very powerful point. Would he like to endorse remarks made by an individual from the King's centre, which is working on military mental health? It said that when the Territorials go as part of a formed unit with their own mates and their own officers the incidence of these problems is very much the same as in the Regular Army, but when they are taken off as...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to interrupt his really excellent speech. As a point of detail, the Government got one thing right by having a focus for reservist advice in the centre, but does he agree that it is extraordinary that the director general of the Territorial Army, with 33,000 people in his organisation, is still only a one-star officer?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: Will my hon. Friend give way?

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: I am listening to my hon. Friend's excellent speech. On a longer-term issue, his vital point about formed units appears, to put it mildly, pretty thin in the Cottam review. Although there is much in the review, about properly-resourced individual training and so on, that we as a party welcome, if it is the blueprint for the future, would he join me in urging the Government and those on our...

Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Future of the Territorial Army (28 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. As chairman of the all-party reserve forces group, may I say, on behalf of the group's members in all parts of the House, that we are delighted that the correct decision has now been taken? I know that both the right hon. Gentleman and the Minister for the Armed Forces have taken a considerable interest in this matter, but will they...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Territorial Army (26 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: We are looking forward to seeing the Minister at 5 o'clock. May I urge him to ask the Chief of the General Staff, in his next conversation with him, whether he is aware of the sacrifices that the families of Territorials make, and whether he would consider imposing such a percentage cut on the income of regular families in this way? Could I also ask—

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: I cannot pay my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. Benyon) enough of a tribute for the remarkable speech that he has just made.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: In fact, we have had several outstanding speeches, including the one by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames). The bulk of the debate has focused, rightly, on Afghanistan, and I want to put on record how incredibly proud the men and women of Canterbury are of the 5th Battalion the Royal Scottish Regiment (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), who were recently given the freedom...

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: This is, of course, one of the reasons why we need more citizen forces. Civilian technology is always well ahead of military technology.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: The hon. Gentleman's strong point is made even more powerful when one reflects on the fact that Afghanistan is a tribal society. The danger is that, in seeking to expand so quickly, there will be parallels with Northern Ireland, for example, with disproportionate numbers of recruits coming from the north and thus being less acceptable to the population as a whole.

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: So why do we not use more reserve aircrews, particularly for helicopters, as the Americans do? The fact that we currently have one reservist Apache pilot—oddly enough, a Royal Naval Reserve officer—out in Helmand shows that reservists can meet a range of such requirements, and plenty of people who work in the civilian helicopter world are ex-service pilots.