Results 1-20 of 33 for trident speaker:Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon
- President Yeltsin and UN Security Council (3 Feb 1992)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...Prime Minister rightly says, the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace, why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident, when they have the option of keeping the number the same, at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them? How can it be consistent— perhaps the Prime Minister will answer...
- Prayers: Debate on the Address (31 Oct 1991)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...and changing one's mind twice in every decade since the war, which is taking changing one's mind to an art form. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan was wrong. My party opposed the building of Trident. We believed that it should not have been undertaken, but that decision has now been made into reality—Trident is there. One cannot pretend that one would not have something which...
- Prayers: Debate on the Address (31 Oct 1991)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: That is absolutely wrong. I have always believed that this country needs the protection of a minimal deterrent, which Trident now provides. I wish that it was not there but it is. If that is the only means of delivering a minimal deterrent, we must hang on to it until it is safe to get rid of it. I believe that this country has to find a way to break out of the long, miserable cycle of...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (24 Mar 1987)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: Does the Minister realise that whatever jobs are tied to Trident in defined communities in Britain they are as nothing to the jobs that have been and will be lost as a result of the cut in conventional expenditure in the rest of Britain's defence industries? Does he realise that 1,800 jobs have already been lost at Westland as a result of the Government——
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (24 Mar 1987)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: Does the Minister realise that the Trident expenditure has already cost 1,800 jobs in Yeovil and will cost more, and that the people of Yeovil have nothing to thank Trident for, because we are bearing the first fruits of this bitter pill?
- Westland plc (29 Oct 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...of State has said, it is strong enough to diversify — but as a major helicopter manufacturer in its own right. We all know the difficulties which the Government are facing over this matter. Trident is causing this cut in defence expenditure. We all know that Westland may be a casualty of that. That obsession has caused the current situation. Westland has been dealt with ill by this...
- Defence: First Day's Debate (30 Jun 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...used in connection with the Liberal/SDP alliance defence commission on which I sat. The real fudge, however, lies in this White Paper. The Government know that what they claimed that they would deliver with Trident makes it impossible to deliver what they say that they want to deliver in terms of conventional weapons. Contrary to the Secretary of State's claim, the evidence is that no...
- Libya (16 Apr 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: And Trident.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (11 Mar 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he is satisfied with the performance to date of the Trident D5 guidance system.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (11 Mar 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that, in order to achieve the planned accuracy, the Trident D5 warhead will require in-flight mid-course correction from an American satellite? Will the British Trident warhead require a similar facility? What steps has the hon. Gentleman taken to ensure that we shall have independence of operation?
- The Army (30 Jan 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: The right hon. Gentleman is very careful to reply that the Labour party would maintain conventional defence spending. We want to know whether it would abolish Trident and maintain defence spending overall — in other words, use the money from Trident — all of it, if necessary — to strengthen conventional forces?
- Opposition Day: Westland plc (15 Jan 1986)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...out of a firm that he was prepared to see go into the hands of the receiver only a few months ago. We do not understand how the man who insists on giving £10 billion to the United States for Trident without British industry getting so much as a look-in should now be concerned about the continuation of a 38-year-old liaison that has profited Britain considerably. We are bewildered that...
- Westlands (Redundancies) (3 Dec 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...won hands down against stiff international competition they promptly moved the goalposts and changed the rules. The Government have delayed decisions and strung out orders to save money for the Trident nuclear missile. When the Government had their crisis in the Falklands, Westlands pulled out all the stops to help and was praised by hon. Members on both sides of the House for what it...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Nov 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: Will the Minister confirm that the British-manufactured warhead for the Trident missile will have to be tested, if not at the United States nuclear test site in Nevada, somewhere else?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: first day's debate (12 Jun 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: The hon. Member for Wealden (Sir G. Johnson-Smith) said that the Liberal party and the SDP were somehow undecided about Trident. He is confusing his party with ours. Both parties have clearly stated their opposition to Trident. It is the Conservative party that is divided on the issue. I should like to deal with a small procurement issue and some more general points. This will come as no...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: first day's debate (12 Jun 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...he cast the mote from his own eye? Does he not recognise that there are substantial differences within his party on defence—for example, the Conservative party is by no means united on the Trident issue. Does that not reveal significant problems within the Conservative party, from which he wishes to turn our attention? Will he recognise that the differences between the SDP and the...
- Royal Ordnance Factories Trading Fund (22 May 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...therefore weaker. We are dependent not upon our in-house supplies but upon supplies from our potential enemies. Is it not ludicrous that we are about to spend £10 billion upon the purchase of the trident missile in an attempt to achieve nuclear independence from our NATO friends, while the result of this will be that we shall be dependent upon our potential enemies in the Warsaw pact...
- Royal Air Force (21 Feb 1985)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ..., the EH101. There is a necessity to build a bridge from the present position to the EH101 in the early 1990s. I recognise the Secretary of State's problems, as all hon. Members must do. They may be generated by Trident. We recognise that he now faces a matrix of difficult decisions. I remember calling Trident "that cuckoo in the nest", and he is now undoubtedly finding good reasons to...
- The Royal Navy (29 Nov 1984)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...(Miss Fookes), whose knowledge of naval matters and support for the Navy is well known and respected throughout the House. I hope that she will forgive me if I strongly disagree with her about the Trident missile. When I asked the Minister whether Trident was a unilateral weapon, he said, "No." I noticed that he was supported by a number of his hon. Friends. Must we go back into the...
- The Royal Navy (29 Nov 1984)
Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...over as Secretary-General of NATO he said that we do not suffer militarily in the balance with the Soviet Union at the moment. He was referring to conventional military balance. The folly of the Trident decision is that at a time when we should be strengthening NATO where it is weakest, we are spending more money on an area in which it already has too many weapons. There is another folly....