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Topical Debate: Defence Policy (30 Oct 2008) has video

Gerald Howarth: ...Ministry of Defence—observed at the Jane's-Cityforum conference this week, the projected population growth from 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion by 2050 will intensify competition for resources, climate change may intensify migration, and ideological pressures are increasing. Some of those aspects were acknowledged by the Secretary of State. My hon. Friend the Member for Harwich (Mr....

Points of Order (22 May 2006)

Gerald Howarth: ...for Romsey (Sandra Gidley), who wrote a piece headed "Letter from Westminster", which I assume is a regular column in her local newspaper, The Romsey Advertiser, in which she referred to the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill and her fear that the "very obstructive" actions of my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) and Eric Forth would scupper the Bill. She...

Defence Procurement (23 Oct 2003)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...one required to move swiftly to a trouble spot anywhere in the world. Indeed, we fully support the concept of expeditionary forces. Furthermore, I personally believe that our default setting should now change from operations in a temperate climate to the expectation that operations will take place in a hot climate. Let me run through some of the particular projects. We have covered the...

Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address: The Economy (14 Nov 1990)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ..., even where people do not know the name of our country, they know the name of our Prime Minister. That high standing has been transferred to the United Kingdom economy where welcome and dramatic changes have taken place. The hon. Member for Wansbeck (Mr. Thompson) mentioned foreign investment in the United Kingdom. He answered his hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone),...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Charge and Basic Rate of Income Tax for I988–89 (3 May 1988)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...has been made tonight to the brain drain. Most people in this country have forgotten what happened in the 1960s, when many talented people left these shores to seek a more conducive economic climate in which to live, free from the shackles of Socialism and the nanny state which Socialism brought with it. If the hon. Member for Oxford, East wants evidence of the incentive effect of reducing...