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HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillMy Lords, I thank everyone for their contributions to this debate and for the ongoing discussions we have had in Committee, outside of it and now back here on Report. Let us be…30 Apr 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillFirst, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, for reading out the letter that I sent. I have placed a copy in the Library, and I will just check that this has happened, to make…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeI will take away that question about female veterans. However, let me read out—although I do not normally do this—one important thing that may help. My briefing tells me that the…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeI fully support everything that the noble Lord said in a very moving way. As I said at the beginning, there are times when what we are all trying to do—in this Chamber, across…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeI beg his pardon. I also congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, who I know is not well. If it had not been for his report, we would not be where we are today.…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeMy Lords, I wonder if I might digress slightly. There are times when we answer Questions at the Dispatch Box that are about issues of real social change that has been brought…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyI have to say that I am not an expert on cruise liners, but the noble Lord makes a serious point: why are we not involved in cruise liners and in various other shipbuilding…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyThe Government are seeking to do exactly what my noble friend points out. The important point he makes is the necessity for a drumbeat: you cannot build a ship in one place and…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyThe National Shipbuilding Office is based in the MoD but works across government. There is a review of the export guarantee, the fundamental point of which is that, where we have…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyThe shipbuilding tsar will be appointed as soon as possible—I cannot give the noble Baroness a date. The National Shipbuilding Office has been involved in a number of projects,…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyWe will see those documents in due course. Of course shipbuilding is going to be a part of future defence growth strategies. These are really important points, and I say…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyCertainly, the shipbuilding strategy is part of the industrial strategy going forward, but my noble friend is absolutely right to highlight the importance of shipbuilding to our…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyMy Lords, the Government are committed to delivering a thriving shipbuilding sector across the UK, supporting companies and skilled jobs across the whole supply chain—from full…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyIf I have understood the noble Baroness’s question correctly, figures have been published on that. If we are talking about Royal Navy ships, as I have already outlined, eight Type…30 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Shipbuilding StrategyMy noble friend makes a really important point. Part of what I and the Government are trying to do is to ensure that the increase in defence spending is felt across the regions…30 Apr 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI thank all noble Lords who have come to the Report stage of the Bill and thank the noble Earl, Lord Minto, again for the support of His Majesty’s Opposition—I know that there is…30 Apr 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillMy Lords, in moving government Amendment 2, I will speak to government Amendments 7, 9 and 11 and to Amendment 12, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Newnham. They all…30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeI thank the noble Lord, Lord Cashman, and join him in his remarks about the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton. Both the previous Government and this Government have tried, and…30 Apr 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner Bill30 Apr 2025HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial Recognition SchemeMy noble friend makes a really good point, but this scheme is not a compensation scheme; it is a scheme to recognise the hurt that was caused to people in the period from 1967 to…30 Apr 2025