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Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Trident (4 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: ...this House needs some independent advice. Might I commend early-day motion 239, which is in my name? It suggests the appointing of seven Privy Councillors to advise this House on the cost of Trident and the alternatives, and that this House should not vote on the matter until we have received such a report.

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Douglas Hogg: Reverting to the subject of Trident, may I suggest to the Leader of the House that we should debate early-day motion 239, which is in my name, next week? [That this House, noting that it is the intention of the Government to ask it to consider the replacement of the Trident missile system with an enhanced system for the delivery of nuclear weapons, believes that, before it is asked to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Nuclear Weapons (5 Feb 1992)

Mr Douglas Hogg: I certainly agree. That is why I deplore the various policy statements made by the right hon. Member for Gorton in the past opposing the deployment of Trident. That was an entirely wrong policy, and I think it time that he apologised to the House for having espoused it.

Nuclear Proliferation (3 Feb 1992)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...confirmation of this, that the hon. Gentleman supported him in that endeavour. My hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) raised two points of significance, one dealing with Trident, the other with the tactical air-to-surface missile. My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me that he had a surgery in his constituency and hoped that the House would forgive his absence...

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...the implementation of Labour's commitment to a reduction in conventional defence spending of £6 billion year on year. What the right hon. Gentleman did not do was give any pledges about either Trident or, for that matter, our nuclear deterrent. Time and again, he was pressed to tell the House whether he proposed to order a fourth boat—if he was in a position to do so—or...

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...: Throughout the 1980s the Labour party was committed to a defence policy which, with regard to nuclear weapons, required the Labour Government to renounce ownership of Polaris and to abandon the Trident programme."—[Official Report, 22 November 1991; Vol. 199, c. 550.] The hon. Gentleman was somewhat less than full in his description of Labour party policy. In addition to the...

Nuclear Defence (14 Jan 1992)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...key demands and policies of CND. Unilateral disarmament for Britain was the policy of the right hon. Gentleman. The closure of nuclear bases, the decommissioning of Polaris and the cancellation of Trident were all his policies. Then followed what was, for the right hon. Gentleman, a period of unaccustomed silence—until, in July last year,The Guardian reported that the right hon....