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HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right about the High North. We will continue to maintain a strong defence profile and posture. Both the Royal Navy and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary will be taking…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn the contrary, we are backing British industry. We are looking for firms that can design, invent and make in Britain—a big change from the industrial policy under the previous…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe stepped up and accelerated the negotiations to conclude the Rolls-Royce contract, and I was able to announce it the other week to apprentices and management at Rolls-Royce. We…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, we have the commitment and we have the plan.10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are setting out to reset relations with key European allies. We have said we will look to co-operate more closely with the European Union where that is in British interests and…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsDespite the titters on his own side, the right hon. Gentleman makes a really important point. At the point at which Ukraine decides to talk instead of, or as well as, fight,…10 Feb 2025HANSARDDefenceWe are grateful to those service personnel—not just the crew of the HMS Somerset, who were, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, mobilised on Christmas day to shadow Russian…28 Jan 2025HANSARDDefenceWe are grateful to those service personnel—not just the crew of the HMS Somerset, who were, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, mobilised on Christmas day to respond to the…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseYes.22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseWe are grateful to those service personnel—not just the crew of the HMS Somerset, who were, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, mobilised on Christmas day to respond to the…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI think the problem is less with the basic rules of the sea and more with observance by states that wilfully test the limits or contravene them. That is why the actions that I…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseWhere there are grounds for interdiction, the Government collectively will certainly be ready, with the appropriate agency, to take action. The right hon. Gentleman will know,…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseWe do not and will not comment on specific operational details like that. Needless to say, however, we work very closely with the Irish Government on such matters. Recently, our…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI do not expect the new Administration to require any coaching on the threats from Russia or other parts of the world. I expect that Administration to be one who take defence and…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseCaptain Blackett and his crew were delighted that the hon. Lady and other members of the armed forces parliamentary scheme were able to go on board to be briefed and look at what…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI thank the hon. Gentleman for the work he does on chairing the all-party group on Nordic countries in this House. One of the benefits of all Nordic countries now being part of…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI certainly do not share the hon. Gentleman’s assertion. I simply say to him that I made the argument that the UK is leading the way with allies in action to deal with the Russian…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI hope the content of my statement—the assertion that the most immediate and concerning threat to the UK comes from Russia—and the action I have taken in response to the Russian…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseThe right hon. Gentleman has huge experience in this field, so he will recognise that I simply will not and cannot get into responding to hypotheticals. He urges me not to allow…22 Jan 2025HANSARD Russian Maritime Activity and UK ResponseI very much welcome my hon. Friend’s voice from landlocked North East Derbyshire recognising the fact that this is not simply a concern of maritime communities or islands, but of…22 Jan 2025