Results 1-20 of 54 for trident speaker:Alex Salmond

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Draft Budget 2010-11 (Police Services) (5 Nov 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...spending cuts that the Labour Party has forecast and the Conservative party has endorsed but, instead, to spend the money on things that matter, such as policing our streets as opposed to putting Trident missiles on the River Clyde.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (17 Sep 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: No; I agree with Iain Gray's first admission: that the Trident programme and weapons of mass destruction should be cut. I think that everyone in Scotland would favour an institution that will build schools throughout the country in a cost-effective manner before weapons of mass destruction from the Labour Party.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (17 Sep 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...that accelerating investment is raiding a budget; we believe that it is supporting 5,000 jobs in Scotland. Yes, we have put the national health service and the school building programme before Trident missiles and weapons of mass destruction—whether Iain Gray supports them or not.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Departmental Expenditure Limit (7 May 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...from the Conservatives. However, I have been listening very carefully to some of David Cameron's comments over the past few days and I have seen a chink of light in what he says with regard to both the Trident missile system and identity cards. I hope that, whether in the talks with Mr Swinney or elsewhere—perhaps even in talks with the people of Scotland—the Conservative...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Student Finance (30 Apr 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ... Byers—the arch-right-winger of the Blair Government—was moved to say that he could not face his constituents with cuts to health and education while a Labour Government supported the Trident replacement programme and identity cards.

Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video

Alex Salmond: ...in the right hon. Gentleman's hat-trick of attacks, there is at least one about which I thoroughly agree with him—the substantial savings to be made by coming to terms with reality on the Trident programme, ID cards and other prestige projects that, patently and obviously, this Government and this country can no longer afford.

Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video

Alex Salmond: ...me, I will not; I have only three minutes left. We are talking about serious money. I have with me an estimate from Public Finance magazine of 23 March 2007 of the total new system costs of Trident, which were between £60 billion and £86 billion, with total potential costs over the lifetime of Trident of £65 billion to £90 billion. Serious money and resources are...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (23 Apr 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: I will tell Iain Gray the choices that we would make if we were in government at Westminster. We would not choose to spend £25 billion on Trident nuclear missiles. Labour at Westminster has also chosen to spend £5 billion on a national database for identity cards that will do nobody any good. That is an extraordinary position. Those are the real political choices. Hands up who in...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Cabinet (Meetings) (26 Jun 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...put forward its long-standing view that weapons of mass destruction should be outlawed and it probably welcomed the fact that the Government in this country is standing up to the new generation of Trident. I thought that the Liberal party once supported that, but that is far from clear from Nicol Stephen.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident: Finance (4 Feb 2008)

Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his most recent estimate is of the total annual cost of the Trident replacement system; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident: Operating Costs (31 Jan 2008)

Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the current annual operating cost is of the Trident submarine fleet and missiles.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Scottish Government Priorities (10 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...; abolishing prescription charges, bridge tolls and student fees; freezing the council tax; cutting business rates; axing Government departments and quangos; rejecting nuclear power; opposing Trident; replacing the private finance initiative; and ending private involvement in the national health service. I assure the member that in 2008 it will not just be more of the same. Our priority...

Written Answers — Defence: Trident: Finance (3 Dec 2007)

Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the estimated annual maintenance cost of the Trident weapons system is expected to be in (a) 2007-08 and (b) each year until 2024.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Cabinet (Meetings) (25 Oct 2007)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: Nicol Stephen has just destroyed any pretension of the Liberal party to moderation. The many people throughout Scottish society, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the churches who oppose Trident and its replacement will look at Nicol Stephen's question and wonder whether the Liberal party's commitment remains or whether it has joined the Trident bandwagon. [ Interruption. ] Finally, yes:...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Cabinet (Meetings) (25 Oct 2007)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...United Nations, to help what I think is a majority opinion in Scotland to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. I will make two points to Nicol Stephen. First, at the highly successful anti-Trident conference, a wide range of opinion, delegates and representative organisations in Scottish society applauded our initiative in looking to end the evil of nuclear weapons on Scottish soil...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Alex Salmond: ...profound good sense when considering the issue we are debating. Way back in the 1980s when the right hon. Jim Hacker was the Prime Minister, he developed a "grand design", which was to get rid of Trident and to invest the money in conventional forces and make the United Kingdom a safer and happier place. He was dissuaded from that course of action by Sir Humphrey, who in doing so was...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Alex Salmond: ...smear made by the Defence Secretary on television a few days ago. She suggested that Mohamed el-Baradei is somehow conspiring against Britain, and that it is unfair that he is commenting only on Trident and not on the other countries. We should remember that this is someone in whom the world is investing so much hope in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Surely this House...

Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Deterrent (21 Jul 2005)

Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions he has had with his US counterparts on the replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (7 Apr 2005)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether nuclear material related to the Trident nuclear system is transported through Glasgow; and through which Scottish (a) constituencies and (b) local authorities nuclear material related to the Trident nuclear system has passed in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (4 Apr 2005)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he last undertook a risk assessment of command and control procedures for the Trident nuclear missile system.