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HANSARD RAF E-7 Wedgetail Programmerose—16 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionYou sent them letters of comfort.14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionLater.14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionWho would wish to serve a Government who may ask them to risk their life fighting for the state, only to be prosecuted in a courtroom half a century later? As General Lord…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell, as we debate this critical petition, which has over 176,000 signatures, some 6,000 of which were added today. I…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionNo. My right hon. Friend the Member for Goole and Pocklington (David Davis) brilliantly highlighted Clonoe in his very moving speech. The remedial order would also remove the…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionNo. Who would wish to serve a Government—14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionI will answer the hon. Gentleman on recruitment. If it had not been for the brave men sitting in the Public Gallery, there would be no Good Friday agreement. Thank God they joined…14 Jul 2025HANSARDNorthern Ireland Veterans: ProsecutionWill the Secretary of State give way?14 Jul 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I join the tributes to Lord Tebbit? He was a political giant in his day and far more capable than the “Spitting Image” puppet ever gave him credit for. May we have a debate in…10 Jul 2025HANSARD UK-France Nuclear PartnershipYou’re briefing it to the press.10 Jul 2025HANSARDRoad and Rail ProjectsThe largest road programme in the UK is the lower Thames crossing from Tilbury to Gravesend. It is now scheduled to cost about £10 billion, and the Government say that 90% or more…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeI endorse the tribute to the late Tessa Jowell—she was a remarkable lady. The Secretary of State pointedly refused to rule out scrapping EHCPs. If that is her intention, may I…07 Jul 2025HANSARD DefenceWe have had a good debate—lively at times—about an important subject. Again, for the avoidance of doubt, we will loyally support the order, which I am sure the House will pass…02 Jul 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI have listened very carefully to what the Minister has said, but I am afraid I remain unconvinced. I think he used the phrase “flip it to see it”. I could offer him another one:…02 Jul 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI rise to address the Lords amendments, following yet another Government defeat in the other place. As I said last month when we last debated this important Bill, His Majesty’s…02 Jul 2025HANSARD DefenceOne of the fundamental tenets of the strategic defence review, as the Minister is now broadening this out, is that we should be prepared to fight and defeat a peer enemy by 2035,…02 Jul 2025HANSARD DefenceI was watching Northern Ireland questions and, from memory, the Northern Ireland Secretary said that the Government would address this through primary legislation, but he gave no…02 Jul 2025HANSARD DefenceHe is nodding—I know that he served with great distinction in Afghanistan, so he too will understand this. We on these Benches have to believe that in the privacy of discussions…02 Jul 2025HANSARD DefenceNo. Armed Forces Day is too important for this sort of silly nonsense, which embarrasses Basildon council in the eyes of the public and, indeed, its local MPs. In all seriousness,…02 Jul 2025