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Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities (21 Jul 2004)

Mr Geoff Hoon: ...and future submarines an improved land attack capability. Our mine countermeasure vessels have made a valuable contribution to recent operations. Against that changing threat, we must retain a balanced force of eight Hunt class and eight Sandown class vessels. We plan to pay off HMS Inverness, HMS Bridport and HMS Sandown by April 2005. The improved security situation in Northern Ireland...

Strategic Defence Review (18 Jul 2002)

Mr Geoff Hoon: ...extra investment in networks to pass information quickly to allow strikes by sea-launched or air-launched missiles, by artillery, or by troops on the ground. That will give us more control of the battle space, hunting down the enemy, identifying targets, then hitting them hard. Unmanned air vehicles will play an important part in the system. US forces in Afghanistan demonstrated how...

International Assistance Force (Kabul) (10 Jan 2002)

Mr Geoff Hoon: .... Those objectives have not changed. They are being achieved, and coalition military operations will continue until they have been achieved in full. The United Kingdom continues to support the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders. We have always made it clear, however, that our commitment to Afghanistan was not simply for the short term. One of the longer-term campaign aims...

International Assistance Force (Kabul) (10 Jan 2002)

Mr Geoff Hoon: We have not run out of any of those elements. We deploy the right types of forces to do the job that is required of us. As I said, up to 5,000 of Britain's armed forces are actively engaged in the hunt for al-Qaeda and remaining elements of the Taliban. They are ensuring that precisely those tasks to which I assume that the hon. Gentleman was referring are completed.

International Force (Kabul) (19 Dec 2001)

Mr Geoff Hoon: ...significance of United States involvement not only in Afghanistan but in other theatres. It has deployed many troops to tackle what continues to be the international community's primary concern: hunting down the remaining elements of al-Qaeda and ensuring that Afghanistan is never used again as a base for international terrorism. That is a great responsibility, of which the United States...

New clause 2: Inheritance Tax and Access (7 Jul 1992)

Mr Geoff Hoon: ...and items of jewellery and furniture. As the Government have made train-spotting so difficult by running down our railways, perhaps I could recommend a new public pastime of public access art-spotting. Treasure hunts are popular at weekends. This would be a real treasure hunt. People would be able to draw up lists of property that they had spotted. I am sure that enterprising publishers...

New clause 2: Inheritance Tax and Access (7 Jul 1992)

Mr Geoff Hoon: That would be part of the challenge. Indeed, it would require only a modest addition to new clause 2 to make the treasure hunt competitive. if we knew how much tax had been forgone, points could be awarded according to the value of the pieces of art spotted by enterprising members of the public. The more valuable the item, the more tax relief, and the more points would be awarded. I am...