Results 1-5 of 5 for trident speaker:Frank Field
- Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill (9 Jul 1987)
Mr Frank Field: ...to be privatised. I suggest that £200 million of taxpayers' money was not just poured into a bankrupt industry. It was poured into the building of a construction hall at Barrow, which is building Trident. Far from the Government presenting the case as one of taxpayers' money being wasted, should not the right hon. and learned Gentleman be saying, as part of his conversation with the...
- Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill (17 Nov 1981)
Mr Frank Field: ...of Defence been able to tell the Minister and British Shipbuilders in outline the demands that it will be making on British Shipbuilders over the next few years? We understand that the costs of Trident have escalated by about one-fifth. Will that increase in costs have an effect on the original estimates which were submitted by the Ministry of Defence to British Shipbuilders?
- Orders of the Day — Shipbuilding Bill (17 Nov 1981)
Mr Frank Field: ...their defence strategy and announced their changes. During the Navy debate before the Summer Recess some hon. Members wondered, if the Government went ahead with changes—and the cost of Trident continued to rise—whether further cuts would be inevitable in the Navy budget. We were assured before Parliament rose for the Summer Recess that there was no chance of the Trident budget...
- Orders of the Day — Royall Navy (22 Jul 1981)
Mr Frank Field: ...be certain. The increased costs of extending the life of Polaris grew like Topsy. Not in this House, but elsewhere, the Secretary of State said that the programme had gone bananas. If the cost of Trident goes bananas, what will be the Government's response? Will they tell the House that they will cut our conventional forces even further? Will the Royal Navy be marked out again for more...
- Orders of the Day — Royall Navy (22 Jul 1981)
Mr Frank Field: ...and the period that we are in now. That was described by the Secretary of State as a programme the cost of which had gone bananas. I was wondering what would happen if the same happened with the Trident programme.