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Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] - Report: Amendment 1 (23 Jan 2024)

Lord West of Spithead: .... Any increase in those powers, however, must be accompanied by a proportional increase in oversight. Sadly, the Government have previously been reluctant to ensure that democratic oversight keeps track of intelligence powers—particularly where it is related to the remit and resources of the ISC. This House has made its views on this long-standing failure known during debates on several...

Offshore Wind - Private Notice Question (11 Sep 2023)

Lord West of Spithead: ...Russian ships from the main directorate of undersea research regularly in the North Sea, going along areas where these lie. Is the Minister happy that we have put enough effort into monitoring and tracking where they are all the time and then using ships, aircraft and whatever else to go and make sure that those lines are still safe?

AUKUS Defence Partnership - Statement (16 Mar 2023)

Lord West of Spithead: ...along at the very edge of the capability of our nation, technologically, scientifically and in an engineering sense, to get a boost and maybe move up a notch. On the SRO ensuring that this follows track, the most successful programme that we ran on a large scale in this country was the Polaris programme. That came in one day early and under budget, because one man was put in charge of it...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Associated British Ports and DP World: Southampton Port (12 Apr 2022)

Lord West of Spithead: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to prevent the Harbour Revision Order being used by AB Ports and DP World to fast track planning and control of the Southampton port area without formal consultation.

Sanctions - Statement ( 1 Mar 2022)

Lord West of Spithead: My Lords, do we and our allies have a view of what a satisfactory end state would be for us? Do we have a mechanism for stopping the sanctions, or some of them? We have a bad track record of doing that in the past. For example, is it just a case of saying, “Get out of Ukraine”? If so, does that include the Donbass, Crimea, Georgia, Moldova, Donetsk and Abkhazia? We must have a view of...

Maritime Security - Question ( 5 Sep 2019)

Lord West of Spithead: ...response about the funding. We have been trying to do that for a long time. The Minister will know that the previous Labour Government set up the NMIC, so I am delighted it is going down the right track. However, we have a dearth of assets among all the departments, including the Navy, which is responsible for our offshore tapestry—our territorial seas and protection of the coast—so it...

Carbon Budgets - Question ( 8 Jul 2019)

Lord West of Spithead: My Lords, one of the best forms of energy for carbon budgets is nuclear. Our civil nuclear programme seems to be in complete disarray. What will we do to get it back on track, so that we can provide a third of the power the country wants from nuclear, which was the Government’s position?

Iran: Nuclear Deal - Private Notice Question (24 Apr 2018)

Lord West of Spithead: My Lords, I am sure that the noble Earl is aware that before the JCPOA was signed, we were on a track that could well have ended up in a war in the Middle East because of the Israeli reaction against Iran as it became more aware of what was going on. Can the Minister confirm that we are also talking with people from Mossad and others about this issue because the loss of the JCPOA would be...

HMS “Ocean”: Hurricane Relief - Question (14 Sep 2017)

Lord West of Spithead: ...to timescales. On Monday 4 September, Hurricane Irma was declared a category 5 hurricane—a really big beast and something to worry about. It is notoriously difficult to predict a hurricane’s track but it was quite clear that it would hit, either leeward or windward, the Greater or Lesser Antilles, where there are a number of British dependencies. On 6 September, it hit Barbuda....

Shipbuilding - Question (14 Jun 2016)

Lord West of Spithead: ...between the order book and actual orders. In the early 1990s, we failed to order the Astute class submarines; the end result was that it took 20 years to get our submarine building back on track, because of loss of skills. When will we actually order the Type 26 frigates? They have already been delayed. Govan, instead of taking on 100 apprentices this year, is taking on 20, and trades are...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (3rd Day) (23 May 2016)

Lord West of Spithead: ...men and women—engineers, designers at Barrow and the supply chains all over the country—were laid off and left to try to find other jobs. As a result, getting the submarine programme back on track was immensely expensive. We came very close to being unable to build submarines at all. Now, after 20 years of effort and huge cost, the submarine programme is back on track and able to...

Strategic Defence and Security Review — Motion to Take Note ( 3 Dec 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...have said, that is a national disgrace. SDSR 2015 claims to want to preserve that number. However, it reduces the planned Type 26 frigates from 13 to eight, with five less capable further down the track, but there are no actual orders. What is the drum-beat of ship orders to ensure stability in our shipyards? I am sure that the noble Lord, Lord Sterling, will today mention the study he put...

Draft Investigatory Powers Bill — Statement ( 4 Nov 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...which we passed only because we got ourselves in such a muddle about this. Here is a real opportunity for us to set a gold standard in the ability to protect our people and ensure that we can track these ghastly people who wish to kill us and do us harm, but also to pay due regard to the privacy of the individual. With pre-legislative scrutiny of all the issues we have been discussing and...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (Continued) (28 May 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...of their lives, and that, “due to the age and fragility of the existing fleet”, their replacement “cannot be delayed further”. However, the Prime Minister and Chancellor do not have a good track record. The submarines could have been ordered early in the last Parliament, but the decision was postponed, and Trident was instead relegated to becoming a political football. Let us...

Defence: UK Territorial Waters — Question (24 Mar 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...National Maritime Information Centre, established by the last Government but funded since then by the current Government, gives very good situational awareness of our waters, but we need assets to track and monitor things. Normally we have three offshore patrol vessels; one is in the West Indies, filling in because we do not have enough destroyers and frigates. We have only one frigate in...

Defence: Strategic Defence and Security Review — Question ( 2 Mar 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: My Lords, the Minister is deluding himself there, because the driver will be the CSR, which will have to gallop down the track very fast. I was disappointed with the Minister’s response to my noble friend on the Front Bench, in terms of the ability to go out and talk to various other people. Does he not believe that we need something like the National Security Forum, and an ability to talk...

International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill — Report (27 Feb 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...of any Government. Indeed, the Prime Minister has said so, as did the Prime Minister before him and the Prime Minister before him. But in 2015-16, the next financial year, defence spending is on track to fall to 1.88% of our GDP. This is the lowest percentage of our GDP in 25 years, yet we are in a highly dangerous and chaotic world. In that highly dangerous and chaotic world, defence...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Report (1st Day) ( 2 Feb 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ...or ironic that Snowden is living in a country which is such a paragon in terms of ensuring that its people are not snooped at and looked at, but that is a different issue. The fact that the fast-track Bill is very important does not mean that we should miss this opportunity to tackle this issue. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile, put it very neatly when talking about the amendments drawn up for...

Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill — Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (26 Jan 2015)

Lord West of Spithead: ..., the risk of these other drones becomes even greater. This is something we have to get our mind around. Interestingly—I had not thought about this before—the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, mentioned tracking mechanisms, which of course are making huge leaps and bounds in technology. You can get ones that are really tiny. Maybe that would be a way, if the drones showed up on secondary radar,...

Children: Online Privacy — Question (16 Oct 2014)

Lord West of Spithead: My Lords, has the National Cyber Crime Unit now developed tools through the high-tech crime units to enable this sort of hacking to be tracked down more rapidly, because at the moment it is very difficult to attribute it?


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