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Devonport Naval Base (5 May 2009)

Linda Gilroy: ...giving way and congratulate him on securing this timely debate. He is making a strong case that has cross-party support in calling for an end to the uncertainty. Is he as worried as I am that the Trident update and the carriers will be put into the melting pot for review by an incoming Tory Government, as was widely reported last week? Is he taking his Front-Bench colleagues to task for...

Topical Debate: Defence Procurement (19 Jun 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ..., not only to ensure that the Navy receives the submarines that it requires, but to ensure that the skills necessary to build those submarines are not lost before work begins on the successor to Trident. I hope that the Under-Secretary will confirm that it is still the intention to order seven boats and tell us that he understands that confirming when orders for further units will be...

Point of Order: Defence Procurement (9 Oct 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...Competition Commission. The terms of business agreements are being cleared: the dotting of the i's and crossing of the t's on the important contract arrangements for the nuclear facility and the Trident contract—an important part of which we operate at Devonport—as well as major contracts to refurbish the Vanguard class submarines. The new owner has been broadly, if somewhat...

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...activities at the dockyard, and to its synergy with the naval base. I was very pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, North acknowledged the importance of the recent decision on the Trident submarine, and of taking that decision now to maintain the skills base. In order to deliver value for money and to keep that still very fragile skills base intact, it is necessary to...

Crime and Drugs (Plymouth) (17 Jun 2003)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...then a Home Office Minister, at the cross-cutting Question Time just a couple of weeks ago. I told him how the problem had developed in Plymouth after a successful blitz on supplies in London through Project Trident. Heroin makes people's lives a misery—the people who use it, their families and their neighbours. It leads to crime; four out of five addicts say that they fund their...

Tackling Drugs: Ex-prisoners (22 May 2003)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...hon. Friend knows of the high-achieving track record in reducing crime of our community safety partnership, which has existed for a long time—it was one of the first in the country. Operation Trident drove some crack cocaine dealers out of London. Sadly, they came to Plymouth, and crime has started to rise again there. Does he understand the frustration experienced by its police...

Armed Forces Personnel (11 Apr 2002)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...into the territorial armed services. I look forward to continuing to visit the centre and to maintaining my relationship with it. I cannot let this occasion pass without mentioning the opening of Trident dock No. 154 in Plymouth, which took place recently in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh. Obviously, that has huge implications for service families and support workers in Plymouth,...

Defence Policy (27 Oct 1997)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...quality of its work. An adequate quantity of surface fleet work is of vital importance to maintaining the viability of the dockyard work force that will be responsible for the maintenance of the Trident fleet. The company and the work force hope that they will win the contract for type 23 frigate HMS Argyll, which is due for refit in May 1998. There are serious fears that failure to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (14 Jul 1997)

Ms Linda Gilroy: Does the Secretary of State recall the commitment given to retaining Trident—[Horn. MEMBERS: "Reading."]—while working for global disarmament clearly given in our manifesto and in "The Road to the Manifesto" and endorsed and ratified by the whole of the party? As it is a matter of considerable concern to constituents in Plymouth, Sutton, can he now confirm that the retention of...