🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I start by apologising to the whole House for the fact that I was not here at the beginning of yesterday’s debate. The consequences of that, I realise, fall upon Members who are here today, who have to listen to me giving the rant on transport that I was going to give yesterday. Such are the easy rules of protocol of your Lordships’ House that one is able to speak on any subject...
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My Lords, I would like to begin, if it is not an impertinence to speak from this side of the House on this subject, by associating myself as vigorously as I can with the remarks of the leader of my party in this House, my noble friend Lady Royall, and my noble friend Lady Dean in condemning some of the things that are happening in other parts of the country today. I was brought up, like many...
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My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this debate but I have been moved to do so. We have heard this evening that this debate is about the reputation of the security services. We have heard it is about 2,000 to 2,500 years of British justice and that we must of course be on our guard to make sure that we do no damage to either of those principles. However, for me the Bill is not about...
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My Lords, on this rather dismal day in your Lordships' House, I would like to cheer us up a bit by reflecting on the admirable maiden speech given some time ago by the noble Lord, Lord Trees. It combined wit and lucidity to our great advantage and I hope very much that we will hear from him on many future occasions. I should also like to cheer up your Lordships with what I thought was the...
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I, too, have been listening very closely to this debate, with no expertise whatever. However, I take on board the concerns of various noble Lords. Could not the matter be satisfactorily resolved by placing on the person making a decision the requirement to let the individual under suspicion know when a decision is going to be taken?
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I have been listening with great care to my noble friend's very instructive and lucid remarks. I declare an interest as a director of an American company that is engaged in purification of water involving the fracking process. I did not hear my noble friend say anything about fracking. The amounts of water that are going to be involved in the United States are stupendous. Perhaps he could...
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I am provoked. Would my noble friend really like to live in Israel in a totally nuclear free world?
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My Lords, I start by congratulating my noble friend Lord Browne on getting this important subject debated in your Lordships' House, and I do not say that with tongue in cheek in any way, because I am fully in favour of intensifying discussions on multilateral nuclear disarmament. I have long been of the view that the size of nuclear inventories on both sides of the Cold War were grotesquely...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask Her Majesty's Government when they last discussed with the German defence minister the Government of Germany's decision to reduce its orders for Eurofighters, military helicopters and the A400M.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have held or plan to hold any discussions with other members of the A400M consortium or with the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company about the consequences for the Government of Germany's decision to reduce its order for the A400M.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the effect on the price of the A400M to the Government of the reduction in German orders for the A400M from 53 to 40.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the effect on the export price of the A400M to its sole announced purchaser of the reduction in orders by the Government of Germany.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have sought any assurance from the Government of Germany that it will make no further reductions in its orders for the A400M.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they expect that any other members of the A400M consortium will reduce their orders in the light of the decision of the Government of Germany to do so.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any estimate of (a) the length of the delay, and (b) the increase in cost, to its order of A-400M aircraft following the discovery of defects which led to its partial grounding at the 2011 Paris Air Show.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to alter the number of A-400M aircraft they will procure following the discovery of defects which led to its partial grounding at the 2011 Paris Air Show.
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