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HANSARDMali: UN Peacekeeping MissionYes, I say to my noble friend that that source of support which we provide is important. Through that base, we are providing training to peace- keepers from a wide range of…15 Nov 2022HANSARDMali: UN Peacekeeping MissionI will call on my colleague in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to answer the noble Baroness, and perhaps to do so more ably than I could achieve. I think we are…15 Nov 2022HANSARDMali: UN Peacekeeping MissionThe noble Earl raises an interesting point. From a defence perspective, I would certainly be sympathetic to providing a further briefing once more details are known. I am sure…15 Nov 2022HANSARDMali: UN Peacekeeping MissionMy noble friend raises a very interesting point. I go back to my earlier observation about how the African states view involvement externally from the continent. We have to be…15 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Court Martial) (Amendment) Rules 2022The noble Lord is very gracious. Not reading things carefully is not a charge that I would ever level at him; it has been my uncomfortable experience to find that he reads things…08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022I thank the noble Lord. I was not forgetting him and was going to endeavour to address those points. It is the provost marshal of the Defence Serious Crime Unit who is in overall…08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022My Lords, this statutory instrument makes a minor consequential amendment to Regulation 8(1) of the Armed Forces (Part 5 of the Armed Forces Act 2006) Regulations 2009. This…08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Court Martial) (Amendment) Rules 2022That the draft Rules laid before the House on 17 October be approved.08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022I thank noble Lords for their contributions. As all have observed, this is a fairly narrow field of activity; none the less, the questions are predictably penetrating and…08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Tri-Service Serious Crime Unit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2022That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 17 October be approved.08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Court Martial) (Amendment) Rules 2022I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, and the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for recognising—it has sometimes been a difficult argument to…08 Nov 2022HANSARDArmed Forces (Court Martial) (Amendment) Rules 2022My Lords, this statutory instrument consists of changes to the rules applying to the court martial contained in Schedule 1 to the Armed Forces Act 2021. Three of the four changes…08 Nov 2022HANSARDRoyal Navy: Conduct towards WomenI thank my noble friend for that very helpful observation. I am sure that we all join him in praising the work of the great majority of submariners. To introduce a little…02 Nov 2022HANSARDRoyal Navy: Conduct towards WomenI thank the noble Lord. As indicated, when these very serious allegations surfaced, the First Sea Lord acted immediately to express his profound concern and order an…02 Nov 2022HANSARDRoyal Navy: Conduct towards WomenThe noble Baroness makes a very important point. I think it is important to remember that nearly 90% of the respondents to the committee would recommend the Armed Forces to other…02 Nov 2022HANSARDRoyal Navy: Conduct towards WomenI very much hope that they will. I have described to the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, where the teeth are in a lot of the changes that have now been made. There are real…02 Nov 2022HANSARDRoyal Navy: Conduct towards WomenMy Lords, the dramatic change which has been taking place within the MoD, leading to changes of policy and legislative change, has been accompanied by leadership training and…02 Nov 2022HANSARDEstonia: UK Troop LevelsAs the noble Lord will understand, looking back to the integrated review, what became very clear was that the review identified that it is not just numbers we have to talk about…31 Oct 2022HANSARDEstonia: UK Troop LevelsThe noble Lord will understand that, were we to retain that second battle group in Estonia, it would require significant extra investment and additional temporary winterisation of…31 Oct 2022HANSARDEstonia: UK Troop LevelsMy noble friend will be aware that in the MoD we constantly assess and respond to threat as the character of that threat emerges. What we did at the inception of the illegal…31 Oct 2022