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Police (8 Mar 2002)

Mr Tony Banks: ...disturb you, but did you hear any gunshots?" I asked why, and they told me that someone sitting in a car two doors down had been assassinated. It was not a random crime but a yardie crime, and the Trident officers were involved. The guy who was shot had been involved in previous drug-related offences and murders himself. Such shootings are happening more and more and people feel that they...

Defence: Nuclear Warheads (Soviet Union) (12 Jan 1993)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., to Ukraine and to the other countries in eastern Europe to dismantle their nuclear weapons? Goiven START 2 and the end of the cold war, is not it time for the Government to give up the ridiculous Trident scheme? It is a criminal waste of money as there is clearly no enemy against which it will be pitched. It seems to be a case of political penis envy by the Government.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (18 Nov 1985)

Mr Tony Banks: .... Conservative Members should bear that in mind. I accept that that money would have built some more houses, but how many more would be built with the £15,000 million that the Government are wasting on Trident? These arguments can be swapped backwards and forwards across the Floor of the House, and hon. Members can make of them what they will, but I know that even fewer houses will...

Local Government (Rates) (6 Feb 1985)

Mr Tony Banks: ...But the Government say that those authorities are spendthrifts, and they talk about extravagance. My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Wareing) hit the nail on the head when he mentioned Trident. Its cost has increased from an estimated £4,500 million in July 1980 to about £11,000 million in January 1985. What would the Secretary of State have said if a local...

Orders of the Day — Rates Bill: Designation of Authorities (26 Jun 1984)

Mr Tony Banks: ...strategy, but I shall let that pass. I believe that the overspend involved for 1983–84 was about £771 million. Meanwhile, the all-party Select Committee on Defence estimates that the cost of Trident has risen by £700 million. Apparently, £700 million extra on Trident can be absorbed without imperilling the Government's economic strategy but a similar amount of extra...