Results 1-15 of 15 for trident speaker:Nicholas Soames

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

Nicholas Soames: ...can no longer do that. We will have to make some very difficult decisions about which particular specialities we are going to stick to, pay for and be a big part of. I want to say a few words about Trident. The arguments on Trident are not yet settled. I voted to renew the deterrent because there must be some form of deterrent, but the arguments have not yet been had in public in nearly an...

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

Nicholas Soames: ...to have it. This is not just a straightforward yah-boo question of who is in favour of it and who is against. Some of the most important fighting men in this country are profoundly against a new Trident system. Some of the most thoughtful people are against it; some very good people are very much in favour of it. It is a very important, serious and expensive decision that will not be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Nicholas Soames: ...major procurement decisions may be taken for the future. We cannot run a procurement policy on urgent operational requirements. We must be able to take the decisions about the carriers and about Trident, areas that all need examining again.

Defence (21 Oct 2004)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...are important decisions. Quite apart from the knockaround of party politics, these are fundamental decisions, as are the onerous decisions that the Secretary of State will shortly have to take on Trident. We are entitled to know, and certainly the constituents of my hon. Friend are entitled to know, what is the Government's intention, what is involved in the MOU and how the Secretary of...

Royal Air Force (6 Feb 1997)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...with CND and its fellow travellers. When it mattered, Labour bottled out and chucked in the sponge. If Labour had been in power in the 1980s, there would have been no cruise missiles and no Trident and there would have been serious consequences for our national security. The hon. Member for Warley, West (Mr. Spellar) may well squirm like a wounded squirrel. The hon. Gentleman's trial by...

Defence Estimates (15 Oct 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...in Northern Ireland. Like many other Members, I have had opportunities to visit our submariners at Faslane. I wish to pay my tribute to the dedicated men who serve in both our hunter killer and Trident boats, and before them on the Polaris vessels which served us so well for 30 years. We place on them and their families the most strenuous demands and they respond with demonstrable...

Defence Estimates (15 Oct 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...CND and other fellow travellers in the 1980s. When it mattered, Labour bottled out and chucked in the sponge. If Labour had been in power in the 80s there would have been no cruise missiles and no Trident. There might have been serious consequences to our national security. Labour proved then once and for all that it can never be trusted with defence. This pathetic and wholly implausible...

Royal Navy (1 Feb 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...myself enjoying a cocktail with you in a wardroom and went a touch too far. I apologise. It remains the truth that, had Labour won any of the past four elections, we simply would not have had Trident. Labour would have had it scrapped. We would have been without our minimum independent nuclear deterrent which is the ultimate guarantee of our national security and makes a significant...

Royal Navy (1 Feb 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: The hon. Gentleman can conjure any form of fantasy out of what he speculates, but the whole Trident programme costs 2.5 per cent. of the defence budget over the procurement period. It is probably the greatest technological achievement of all time in terms of what it has done, and its cost and value for money are quite outstanding. If we needed to procure another system in years to come, I...

Royal Navy (1 Feb 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues queried the cost of the refit of HMS Renown. The decision to carry out the refit was taken at a time when the Trident programme was still many years away from fruition. It was essential to ensure the continuation of the cycle of patrols of Resolution class submarines until the Vanguard class was in service. It was a wholly rational decision. Because the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: British-USA Co-operation (9 Jan 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: My hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement will answer a question about the Trident programme later. Suffice it to say that the Trident programme represents a remarkable achievement by the Royal Navy, coming in within budget and on time. It is a wonder of technical engineering.

Royal Navy (16 Feb 1995)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), as one would expect, made a thoroughly polished and sensible speech. He was, however, a little churlish about the Navy programme. One cannot possibly exclude Trident from the procurement programme, and by any stretch of the imagination, the programme has done extremely well. VSEL has done a marvellous job on Trident, and the Navy has a handsome...

Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates: Second Day (18 Oct 1994)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...conference called for deep cuts in defence. Two days after the launch of the so-called new model Labour party, the Labour party conference voted for £6.5 billion in defence cuts and to do away with Trident. When hon. Members decide which way to vote tonight, they should consider the fact that if they undertake to make cuts of £6.5 billion, they must give us an account of which...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (26 Feb 1985)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: asked the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received since his most recent announcement of the revised cost of the Trident system.

Orders of the Day — Defence (19 Jun 1984)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...host of strategic changes and decisions to be taken on the ground. In my opinion, that must bring into question one of the biggest sacred cows of all—the costly and financially destabilising Trident venture. The House should ask how we are to mesh our assets into any future European defence community, and we need a real assessment of whether the Trident programme will place a heavy...