Results 1-17 of 17 for trident speaker:Alan Beith

Swan Hunter (12 May 1993)

Mr Alan Beith: ...whose Department is responsible for monopoly policy, will the right hon. Gentleman investigate and ascertain whether the order that was placed was in any way subsidised by the profits from the Trident contract? If that were so, it would mean that a monopoly supplier was buying its way into another monopoly.

Orders of the Day — Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Bill (22 Oct 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: ...guarantee? How can it, since it depends on continued co-operation from the United States in servicing and supply? We had an increasingly abstruse discussion earlier about the ownership of Trident missiles. I refer the Foreign Secretary to the definition that was helpfully provided by the Chairman of the Defence Select Committee in the previous Parliament, the hon. Member for Hampshire,...

Orders of the Day — Nuclear Arms Control (13 Jul 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: ...be in the circumstances? Surely it should be to facilitate and to urge on the reaching of an agreement. The Prime Minister is fond of saying that it is all because of cruise, Polaris and Trident that the Soviet Union is coming to the negotiating table. But, of course, for decades the West has been strong relative to the Soviet Union at any given time. We have had areas of strength, and...

Orders of the Day — Nuclear Arms Control (13 Jul 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: ...of any potential European battlefield. There is a need to press ahead for a comprehensive test ban treaty and to continue towards limitation of strategic missiles, which has implications for Trident. It remains possible that we could reach the stage in this Parliament that the weapons system the Government have chosen might fall within the limits which the super-powers want to set on...

Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address: Foreign Affairs (26 Jun 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: .... The United Kingdom defence budget is to fall by 8 per cent. up to 1989–90. During that period there will be considerable pressures on the equipment programme because of the purchase of Trident, and it is inevitable that the NATO obligations to which the Gracious Speech referred will not be satisfied unless something gives. It would be helpful if the Minister who is to reply to the...

Opposition Day: Intermediate Nuclear Weapons (9 Mar 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: ...debate to pouring cold water on the prospects for the INF discussions, but even he agreed, for example, that a stage had come when not only would the I NF negotiations proceed but when we would put Trident into international arms negotiations. He finds himself in a similar position to that adopted by the alliance in being prepared to maintain a British nuclear capacity at its present level...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Falkland Islands (29 Jun 1982)

Mr Alan Beith: ...Services with such magnificent heroism, how will the right hon. Gentleman find the money to maintain that important commitment, to replace lost vessels, to maintain the 3 per cent. increase and the Trident programme and to carry out the necessary strengthening of our conventional defences?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Aircraft (23 Feb 1982)

Mr Alan Beith: Did or did not the Secretary of State refer to a "window of vulnerability" opening in our air defences during the next five years? Is that not the price of the Trident programme?

Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Supply Procedure) (15 Feb 1982)

Mr Alan Beith: ...defence budget to finance everything under the sun is not a belief that I share. It is not an option. I do believe that the Government have their defence priorities wrong. They should not be buying Trident: there should be greater spending on conventional defence to meet the real threat facing this country and its allies. However, any attempt to advance such arguments in certain of our...

Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Supply Procedure) (15 Feb 1982)

Mr Alan Beith: The hon. Gentleman should know that there was no debate on Trident and the replacement of Polaris until, interestingly enough, the Liberal Party secured a Consolidated Fund debate in the early hours of the morning, having attempted to secure such a debate for about 18 months. Nevertheless, I said that my example was hypothetical. No doubt hon. Members can think of other subjects which the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Nuclear Weapons (Negotiations) (16 Dec 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: Does the Minister envisage that Trident will ever feature in multilateral disarmament negotiations to which Britain is a party?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (8 Dec 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: At what stage do the Government envisage that Trident will be brought into multilateral disarmament negotiations?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident Missiles (10 Nov 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: asked the Secretary of State for Defence what is his latest estimate of the cost of the Trident missile project.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Cash Limits (17 Feb 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: Since the Secretary of State has said that he does not intend to make apocalyptic choices to deal with the budgetary pressures which he will undoubtedly face—I take it that he includes Trident as one of the apocalyptic choices that he does not want to make— how on earth is the readiness of our Armed Forces to survive the constant cutting of men, equipment, exercises, fuel and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (20 Jan 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether any defence projects are under review as a result of the excalating costs of the Trident programme; and if he will list them.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (20 Jan 1981)

Mr Alan Beith: ...depend on whether he keeps election pledges to safeguard our defences or uses his Treasury experience to whittle them away? Does he realise how many commentators now accept that we cannot afford Trident without impairing the strength of the British Army of the Rhine or our naval commitments to NATO?

Orders of the Day — Polaris Replacement (4 Aug 1980)

Mr Alan Beith: This may seem a strange hour to launch a debate on so major a subject as the replacement of Polaris by Trident. It is a reflection on the strange procedures of this place that this is the only opportunity that we have to debate such a major decision before the House rises for a recess of several months. There would not have been a debate on this issue if my right hon. and hon. Friends on the...