Results 1-13 of 13 for trident speaker:Nick Brown

Written Answers — Home Department: Firearms: Crime Prevention (9 Jul 2007)

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed on Operation Trident; what assessment she has made of the merits of rolling out the programme to other large metropolitan cities; and if she will make a statement.

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Nick Brown: ...What are the capacity constraints? Those questions have not changed. I was first elected to the House of Commons in 1983 and arrived just in time to take part in the great debate about the original Trident programme. My view then was that we should do what other European members of NATO do and rely on America's strategic deterrent, and not duplicate it ourselves. There is only so much...

Defence (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Nick Brown: ...in Iraq; it could not have been otherwise. However, he did not refer to our strategic nuclear deterrent, although others have referred to it. I remember arguing the case for and against the Trident programme with the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) as it was being embarked on some 20 years ago. The hon. Gentleman thought that it was a good thing and would defend the country; I...

Adjournment (Spring) (18 May 1993)

Mr Nick Brown: ...of those changes and would know within reason how that movement would be reflected in Swan Hunter's price. Unlike Swan Hunter, VSEL has massive financial resources, which have been built up on the profits of the Trident submarine contract. That contract is essentially a cost-plus contract which has left VSEL with a large financial surplus. As well as adding £12·5 million to the...

Royal Navy (6 May 1993)

Mr Nick Brown: ...might be to have a day each to debate the Army, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the strategic deterrent. There can be no doubt that the concentration on the strategic deterrent—the Trident programme—has dominated conventional naval defence and overshadowed debates such as this. I must at once declare a pretty obvious vested interest. My constituents build the hardware...

Clause 64: Life Assurance Business: I Minus E Basic (8 Jul 1992)

Mr Nick Brown: ...). My hon. Friend the Member for Darlington made an effective speech about the powers of Customs and Excise. My hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton) came in strongly, not on Trident submarines but on section 1 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, which showed considerable attention to detail on the part of one so new to our proceedings and promised much for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy (5 Feb 1990)

Mr Nick Brown: ...and a day for the Air Force— when the question of our strategic deterrent arises under all three headings. We should consider the issues under four separate headings and have a debate about Trident and Britain's nuclear capability distinct from our debates on the conventional role of our three armed forces. I shall refer specifically to the conventional role of the Royal Navy and...

The Royal Navy (3 Mar 1988)

Mr Nick Brown: ...so, of course, is that this debate is dominated by the public expenditure debate, and the poor old Royal Navy has been hammered by other commitments, in particular the continuing commitment to the Trident programme. My hon. Friend the Member for Wallsend (Mr. Garrett) spoke of the feeling on Tyneside for the Royal Navy and the enormous enthusiasm in our shipbuilding communities —...

The Royal Navy (2 Feb 1987)

Mr Nick Brown: ...on both sides of the House express their support for the Royal Navy and the merchant marine and express fears about future procurement. Labour Members express these fears in the context of the Trident programme. The Government respond by denying that the Trident programme is affecting the availability of resources for conventional procurement, but they do not announce any warship orders....

Defence Projects and Exports (12 Dec 1986)

Mr Nick Brown: ...the industries would survive in their present form without that domestic underpinning. In the next few years, about one third of all available money for conventional defence is committed to the Trident programme. Instead of supplementing NATO's conventional forces to bring the Western Alliance to a closer balance with the Warsaw Pact countries, we are duplicating a nuclear capability that...

Royal Navy (6 Feb 1986)

Mr Nick Brown: .... I see no immediate prospect of the United Kingdom having a defensive strategy outside NATO. The logical consequence is that there are two key strategic issues for this country: first, the cost of Trident and the effect of that cost on the defence budget, and, secondly, the rationale for an independent United Kingdom nuclear deterrent. Important decisions have to be taken. The decisions...

Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill (5 Feb 1985)

Mr Nick Brown: ...the state scheme, but under the British Shipbuilders redundancy scheme? Can the Minister give the House an assurance at least on that? Another factor affecting the defence aspect is the cost of Trident. Potential investors in warship yards must work out how much of the conventional naval programme is likely to be delayed or cancelled through the escalating cost of Trident, unless the...

The Royal Navy (29 Nov 1984)

Mr Nick Brown: ...crew so that they would fit more economically into the spaces available in the ships. I do not think that such issues should dominate a debate about the Royal Navy. The crucial issue is that of Trident versus the money that will be spent on the remainder of the service. I strongly support the Labour party's defence policy, which includes membership of NATO. Labour party members constantly...