John Healey: ...defence of our nation but to the members of our NATO alliance, and also to our UK role in upholding international law. We respect, as the world does, the professionalism with which they do their job. I welcome the further AUKUS agreements that that are being signed this week between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is our most important strategic defence alliance...
John Healey: ...strength. Fourthly, we will renew the nation’s moral contract with those who serve. And fifthly, we will drive deep reform of defence, and we will direct defence investment first to British jobs and British business. This is how Labour will make our country secure at home and strong abroad. We will consult across the House in doing so because we want our plan to be not just Labour’s...
John Healey: ...defence of our nation but to the members of our NATO alliance, and also to our UK role in upholding international law. We respect, as the world does, the professionalism with which they do their job. I welcome the further AUKUS agreements that that are being signed this week between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is our most important strategic defence alliance...
John Healey: ...strength. Fourthly, we will renew the nation’s moral contract with those who serve. And fifthly, we will drive deep reform of defence, and we will direct defence investment first to British jobs and British business. This is how Labour will make our country secure at home and strong abroad. We will consult across the House in doing so because we want our plan to be not just Labour’s...
John Healey: ...defence of our nation but to the members of our NATO alliance, and also to our UK role in upholding international law. We respect, as the world does, the professionalism with which they do their job. I welcome the further AUKUS agreements that that are being signed this week between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is our most important strategic defence alliance...
John Healey: ...strength. Fourthly, we will renew the nation’s moral contract with those who serve. And fifthly, we will drive deep reform of defence, and we will direct defence investment first to British jobs and British business. This is how Labour will make our country secure at home and strong abroad. We will consult across the House in doing so because we want our plan to be not just Labour’s...
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what number and proportion of UK jobs are in the (a) aerospace and (b) defence industry in each constituency as of 2 February 2024.
John Healey: ...he is right to say that Government time signals the importance that the Government give to the business they bring to this House. While the Backbench Business Committee does an important and useful job, it is Government time that matters. Since the Defence Secretary has been in post, we have not had that general debate on defence, and we should. We have not had a debate on Ukraine for four...
John Healey: ...meet the duties of international law and secure flows of aid into Gaza. I welcome the Secretary of State to the Dispatch Box for his first statement, particularly as this week marks 100 days in the job. The UK has an important role to play to strengthen regional stability in the middle east. That is why the Leader of the Opposition has met and spoken with leaders in the region, including...
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) direct and (b) indirect UK jobs are being supported by funding from the International Fund for Ukraine.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) direct and (b) indirect UK-based jobs that are being supported by funding from the International Fund for Ukraine.
John Healey: ...roles, I have shadowed him and he has shadowed me, and we both know that the first duty of any Government is to keep our country safe. I will always look to work with him on that basis in his new job. On personnel, levels of satisfaction with service life have plunged a third over the past 13 years. What is the plan to lift those record low levels of military morale?
John Healey: ...forces personnel. Following the Defence Secretary’s decision to stand down, I want to start by paying tribute to his time in this House. He is a political survivor. I remember that his first job in 2010 was as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ken Clarke, and for the last four years he has been a dedicated Defence Secretary. In particular, I want to recognise his work on Ukraine, and...
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent Armed Forces Champions have been posted in job centres in each year since 2015.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 May 2023 to Question 182492 on Military Bases, for what reasons his Department does not plan to publish job roles or descriptions for staff working on the Defence Estate Optimisation Portfolio.
John Healey: ...entitled Optimising the defence estate, published on 11 June 2021, how many (a) personnel, (b) civil servants and (c) contractors were working on the defence estate optimisation portfolio in each job role as of 6 April 2023; and what the job description is for each of those roles.
John Healey: ...11 June 2022, what number of (a) personnel, (b) civil servants and (c) contractors are working on the Optimising the Defence Estate Portfolio as of 6 April 2023; and if he will publish the job description and number of staff working in each role on that portfolio.
John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide for each distinct job role, the job description and number of staff in that role, and salary band information at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation as of 1 March 2023.
John Healey: ...Labour support. The multi-decade agreement deepens security and opportunity between our three countries. It strengthens strategic security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific. It promises not just jobs now, but jobs in the next generation and the one after that. It fulfils all our obligations under the non-proliferation treaty. I want to see Britain playing the biggest role possible in...
John Healey: ...of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement entitled Shipbuilding Update, published on 18 January 2023, HCWS502, if he will make an estimate of the number of supply chain jobs that will be created in the UK.