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HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperI have read the NAO report. In fact, I usually bring it to every session of parliamentary questions because the good thing about it is that it shows that in the final year of the…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperFirst and foremost, the key thing about our ships is to make sure that they are available to use. As the Secretary of State for Defence, I want them on the seas, able to project…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperNo, I do not. If the hon. Lady wants to know one of the reasons why we have taken a slightly different position, it is Operation Spring Shield, which relates to the Turkish…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperMy hon. Friend and I completely agree on this matter. We are going to invest in and increase the number of defence attachés around the world. We are going to invest in better…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperThe Reserve Forces 2030 review on the next iteration of reserves will report to Parliament very soon and will certainly show our desire to build on the direction of travel in…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I made available to Members of the House a briefing by the Chief of Defence Intelligence last week where he set out the range of emerging…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperAll service leavers will get full support on the resettlement journey, but there will be no redundancies of service personnel related to these reductions.22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is nothing in what he has said that I disagree with. Let us put it in context. Of the declared nuclear powers, we have the lowest…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperDisarmament is achieved when both sides are credible in what they offer up. To offer up something that is not credible would see us get taken to the cleaners, and the other people…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperFirst and foremost, when it comes to numbers, carriers used to take 1,800 members to crew them; they now take 800. That is simply the direction of travel with automation and…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperI read that report—of reports I have read in my time, I think I would give it one out of 10. [ Interruption. ] First of all, four members of that Committee accumulated over a…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperFirst of all, the Russians will look at the fact that we have learned the lessons of Crimea and elsewhere and will be investing in deep fires, which were a place where we were…22 Mar 2021HANSARD Integrated Review: Defence Command PaperAs a young officer, 30 years ago almost to the day, I was summoned to the drill square to have read aloud key decisions from the Government’s defence review at the time, “Options…22 Mar 2021HANSARDCyber WarfareThe threat of cyber-attack on UK interests is real. Every day, we witness malicious interference from adversary states and hostile actors. We are continually protecting our…15 Mar 2021HANSARDCyber WarfareI hear what the right hon. Gentleman says, but I would take issue with it on one thing, and that is about us catching up. I was the cyber-security Minister—I was the Minister of…15 Mar 2021HANSARDCyber WarfareAfter the Defence Command Paper is announced on Monday, a week today, the defence industrial strategy will be launched the following day, which will give us an opportunity to…15 Mar 2021HANSARDCyber WarfareIt is tempting to ask for Bolton as well as Warrington to be returned to Lancashire following the reforms of the early 1970s. I must declare that I was once a secretary for the…15 Mar 2021HANSARDCyber WarfareI certainly hear what my hon. Friend says. As another Lancashire MP, I am conscious of the good news which the Prime Minister announced that the force will be based in the north…15 Mar 2021HANSARDSingle-source Defence ContractsI am today announcing that I have set the baseline profit rate for single-source defence contracts at 8.31%, in line with the rate recommended by the Single Source Regulations…15 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrated with brutal clarity the devastating impact of unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and…15 Mar 2021