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Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Gordon Brown: ...to show that they are not proliferating nuclear weapons, rather than our duty being to prove that by our investigations. I hope that there will be major progress on the non-proliferation treaty. As for Trident, let me be clear. We need collective action for disarmament involving all the nuclear states, and that is also one of the promises of the non-proliferation treaty. At a time when...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (1 Jul 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: ...hon. Gentleman will support those measures, which are designed both to reduce the deficit and to ensure that there are sufficient resources for public services. I have already made my position on Trident clear—in the debate on Monday.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Building Britain's Future (29 Jun 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: We have a long-standing policy on Trident, which my hon. Friend disagrees with but which is the policy of the Government and has been voted on in the House of Commons. The most important thing to recognise is that we will work with other countries to secure multilateral disarmament. We have put forward proposals as we go forward to the renewal of the non-proliferation treaty, and we hope that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: We have already made our decisions about Trident and have set aside the money for that to happen. We have set aside money for aircraft carriers as well. We have the biggest equipment budget in history and, at the same time, we are spending more current money on our defence forces every year. That is why we have the second largest defence budget in the world. I believe that the hon. Gentleman...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (16 Jan 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: As the hon. Gentleman knows, Plymouth will refit the Trident submarine, and it has a huge amount of work in the years ahead. A massive amount of investment has gone into Plymouth, and I can assure him of our commitment to the dock yard there. At the same time, he will acknowledge that that commitment is possible only because we are spending more on defence every year. We will continue to do...

Devonport Dockyard (21 Jan 1987)

Mr Gordon Brown: Are we now to have Trident courtesy of the American Government, helicopters courtesy of Sikorsky, early warning aircraft courtesy of Boeing, and the refit of the majority of our naval frigates and submarines courtesy of Brown and Root of Delaware? Will the Minister tell us exactly how many jobs will be put at risk by subordinating the interests of national security to those of commercial...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: first day's debate (12 Jun 1985)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...of Defence and now threatens to engulf it. The shortfall in the defence budget is obvious not only from the report of the Defence Select Committee, but from the Defence Estimates. It is caused by Trident, which Mr. David Greenwood of Aberdeen university says will involve a £4 billion gap in the defence budget by 1988. The implications of the gap are most obvious in the effectiveness...

The Royal Navy (29 Nov 1984)

Mr Gordon Brown: Although this debate has ranged widely, the major contributions have concentrated widely on the escalating costs of Trident, which, set against the falling pound, put at risk our conventional defences. I wish to concentrate upon the future of the royal dockyards. The subject was mentioned by the hon. Members for Cornwall, South-East (Mr. Hicks) and for Plymouth, Drake (Miss Fookes). The...

Orders of the Day — Defence (19 Jun 1984)

Mr Gordon Brown: ...occasions. We look forward to hearing further contributions from the hon. Lady. The dominant theme of this debate has been the concern expressed by hon. Members about the escalating cost of the Trident programme, a project which is unacceptably expensive, economically wasteful and militarily unsound. It is a project which, while escalating the risks of nuclear war, puts at risk the...