Results 1-17 of 17 for trident speaker:Jack Straw

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill (8 Jul 2008)

Jack Straw: ...in The Daily Telegraph on 21 June responding to the Davis judgment that, as a result of the provision for anonymised evidence taking, the detection rate for such murders—yardie, Operation Trident murders—had risen to about 85 per cent., up from, he said, around 40 per cent. in the mid to late 1990s. However, the proportionate use of such evidence goes much wider than that....

Business of the House (1 Mar 2007)

Jack Straw: ...Tuesday 13 March—Proceedings on the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, followed by remaining stages of the Statistics and Registration Service Bill. Wednesday 14 March—A debate on Trident on a Government motion. Thursday 15 March—A debate on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. Subject to be announced. Friday 16 March—The House will not be sitting. I...

Business of the House (1 Mar 2007)

Jack Straw: The people who say one thing and do another are Scottish National party Members and their allies; they are the experts on this. I hope that when we come to the day for the debate on Trident there will be a very serious discussion about what is in the United Kingdom's long-term defence interests. It is not a trivial matter; it is about the future defence of this country, and, indeed, the...

Business of the House (14 Dec 2006)

Jack Straw: Happily, I have been spared any requirement to sign early-day motions since I entered the shadow Cabinet in 1987. We have already said that there will be a debate on Trident and it will be on a substantive motion. It will be in early March, I think. We are not signing the early-day motion—

Business of the House (30 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ...hon. Lady raised the issue of the NATO summit. The House will wish to know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will make a statement in the House on the White Paper on the future of the Trident missile system on Monday. It is entirely appropriate that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, who was present at the NATO summit with the Prime Minister, should make...

Business of the House (30 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ..., attended the event—he is criticised for not being present. This Prime Minister has made more statements per year than previous Prime Ministers. He will make a statement on the future of the Trident system on Monday, and I support him on the matter asked about. It is perfectly reasonable that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence makes the statement today. It was...

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ...hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made some important announcements. However, I promise the hon. Gentleman that, of course, we will keep that under review. Our hope is to have a White Paper on Trident before the end of the year. A statement should accompany it. Sir David Cooksey's report is not ready for publication and I have not seen it, but I will certainly bear in mind the hon....

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ...a White Paper, hopefully before the end of this calendar year. Of course there will be a statement on the White Paper, whose purpose is to set out the Government's judgments about the future of Trident, including, fundamentally, the issue of threat as we see it. Then, as I have already made clear on a number of occasions, there will be a debate in the House in Government time and a vote on...

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: It is not remotely a rushed decision. If my hon. Friend looks at the time scale from the original decision on Trident in the early 1980s and how long it took to be implemented, or at earlier decisions, he will see that very long lead-in times are involved. There may be an argument as to whether we need to take a decision now, but the Government believe that we need to take one in the next few...

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ...find favour with the Government. It would never find favour with any Government. That was not the approach adopted, for example, by the Thatcher Government when there was a vote on the existing Trident system in March 1981. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was in the House and supported that decision in those days. That seems an appropriate way to proceed. It is a decision for...

Business of the House (23 Nov 2006)

Jack Straw: ...than he usually is. His argument did not add up to much. As regards the question, there is no great surprise about that. If there is a Government recommendation in favour of a replacement for Trident, the motion will be, roughly speaking, in those terms. It is then for right hon. and hon. Members on either side of the House to table amendments to the motion if they wish, and it is a matter...

Business of the House (22 Jun 2006)

Jack Straw: ...is reprehensible of the Opposition to seek to denigrate the fantastic performance of teachers across the country in raising standards for all our children. The right hon. Lady then asked me about Trident. Our manifesto at the 2005 general election stated that we—the Labour Government—are "committed to retaining the independent nuclear deterrent". In speaking about the longer...

Business of the House (22 Jun 2006)

Jack Straw: If that is the policy, why was it not mentioned in the Conservatives' 2005 manifesto? The 2005 Conservative manifesto was completely silent on the issue of Trident's replacement. The right hon. Lady asked about the Prime Minister-designate. I am glad to know that she believes that the Prime Minister-designate is the Chancellor, not the Leader of the Opposition. Finally—I congratulate...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (23 Oct 2003)

Mr Jack Straw: ...States in implementing the measures agreed in the Final Document of the 2000 NPT Review Conference. More specifically, the UK has: withdrawn and dismantled the RAF's freefall nuclear bomb so that Trident is now our only nuclear weapons system; reduced our operationally available stockpile to fewer than 200 warheads, which is a reduction of more than 70 per cent. in the potential explosive...

Renewable Energy Sources (Promotion): Rates (25 Feb 1986)

Mr Jack Straw: ...right that we should pay for decent services for the rest of the population. I do not begrudge the money that I pay to Lambeth. I begrudge some of the taxes taken from me to pay for wasteful expenditure on Trident far more than I begrudge the money I pay towards the services provided in Lambeth. As I have said time and again, I look upon the £550 in rates that I was paying before...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (6 Apr 1982)

Mr Jack Straw: ...force in Preston is important. Does he accept that representatives of the work force, who have seen himself and myself, made it clear that their deep anxieties were over the wasteful expenditure on Trident and earlier developments towards Trident? That has caused them much anxiety over their job prospects in working on conventional weaponry.

Nuclear Deterrent (3 Mar 1981)

Mr Jack Straw: ...right hon. Gentleman justify his statement when all of us on the Opposition Benches—including the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen)—are united in opposition to the Trident programme?