Results 1-9 of 9 for trident speaker:Tony Lloyd

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (11 Nov 2009)

Tony Lloyd: ...have, not just today but in the weeks and months to come, is about how far Britain can go in achieving consensus across our political system, or at least beginning to build that kind of consensus. Trident replacement has been put back, in effect, until beyond the next election, and the Prime Minister has begun to speak about the capacity for moving from four to three Trident submarines in...

Orders of the Day — Nuclear Weapons (India and Pakistan) (31 Jul 1998)

Mr Tony Lloyd: .... Specifically, as my hon. Friends have said, the strategic defence review contains several points of real significance. We have reduced the stockpile of available warheads and there is only one Trident submarine on deterrent patrol at any time. It carries 48 warheads, which is half the ceiling announced by the previous Government. It may interest my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle to...

Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Bill [Lords] (6 Nov 1997)

Mr Tony Lloyd: ...inspection of exactly the kind that the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) and I have been discussing. With the advent of the treaty, the implications of any changes or deterioration in our Trident warheads will have to be assessed without nuclear testing. Similarly, after any corrective action or refurbishment, we will have to requalify warheads as safe and reliable without nuclear...

Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (3 May 1995)

Mr Tony Lloyd: ...by the present or, indeed, any future Government. We also welcome the decommissioning of the WE177 free-fall bombs, but it must be said that those weapons systems were obsolete, and that, once Trident is fully deployed, the simple truth is that we shall have more warheads at our disposal, and certainly more capacity to target different sites, than we had at the end of the cold war....

Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (3 May 1995)

Mr Tony Lloyd: ...the world through proliferation to states and maverick organisations. Let me say clearly what a Labour Government would do. A Labour Government would want to limit the number of warheads on Trident to those on the present Polaris system. We would want to ensure that the world was aware of the situation with respect to warheads. The kind of secrecy that the Government have displayed, which...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Strategic Defence Initiative (30 Apr 1985)

Mr Tony Lloyd: asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether the introduction of a strategic defence initiative for Europe will have implications for the Trident project.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Strategic Defence Initiative (30 Apr 1985)

Mr Tony Lloyd: ...Union were to respond to the American star wars programme with the same type of programme, as the British Government claim they are already doing, would it not entirely negate the value of the Trident programme, and is that not the fallacy which underlies the present defence programme?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: British Army of the Rhine (26 Mar 1985)

Mr Tony Lloyd: ...the worst equipped of all the major armed forces in the NATO central front, having less artillery than the Dutch Army, and fewer tanks than the French or Germans? Is it not inevitable that the Trident programme will make the situation massively worse in this vital area of Britain's defence capability?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Jun 1984)

Mr Tony Lloyd: Does the Secretary of State accept that any first use of Trident would be suicidal, both nationally and throughout the world? Will he give a clear commitment on behalf of the Government that there will be no first use of Trident and other British nuclear weapons?