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Armed Forces Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 10 January 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Liam Fox. The answering member was Jim Murphy.
Armed Forces Bill. Second reading debate agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Select Committee, Public Bill Committee, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings, agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question. Ordered, That the following provisions shall apply to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill: 1. The Committee shall have 14 members, to be nominated by the Committee of Selection. 2. The Committee shall have power- (a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and to report from day to day the minutes of evidence taken before it; (b) to admit the public during the examination of witnesses and during consideration of the Bill (but not otherwise); and c) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity relating to the provisions of the Bill. - (Angela Watkinson.)

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

521 c46-123 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Defence

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions
Queen's recommendation

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Armed Forces Bill. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 122-EN).
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) Yes, quite right. We all welcome the good work of the Royal British Legion. The Bill is important f...
Bob Russell | 521 c96 (Link to this contribution) That is a good question. I do not know the answer, but it is the sort of detail that we should discu...

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Jim Murphy | 521 c121 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman tempts me to rise, and I encourage the Secretary of State to rise to defend...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c91 (Link to this contribution) It is strange that Conservative Members are unwilling to draw a comparison with the private sector. ...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c83 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman entirely on that. What does he make of comments by the National Unio...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c77-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased. I am a member of the Warminster branch of the Royal British Legion and I rarely d...
Lord Beamish | 521 c66 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman therefore agree that what is being put forward today is rather disappointing...
Jim Murphy | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has got to his feet again and failed again. All I am asking today is that the Gov...
Alun Cairns | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State for giving way. I certainly support the actions of th...
Jim Murphy | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman called me the Secretary of State; of course, I am the shadow Secreta...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that the efforts and changes to maximise rest and recuperat...
Jim Murphy | 521 c57 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point and like him I look forward to looking in detail at the...
Bob Russell | 521 c54 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that the previous Government did a tremendous amount for the armed forces, but does th...
Nick Smith | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the change from RPI to CPI for pensions uprating will cost many...
Julian Lewis | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the shadow Secretary of State is introducing a partisan note into this debate. As he...
Jim Murphy | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend takes a keen interest in these issues. He is right to mention that matter...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his consensuality, which I, as a service pensioner, welc...
Jim Murphy | 521 c56 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is usually very fair in these debates, and I think he will acknowledge that I hav...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 521 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not, because the real test will be in the implementation. I have confidence that the Government...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with those comments, because we are all equal before the law. However, if taking th...
Lord Robathan | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an extremely important topic, and one that should not be taken lightly. I ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that there has been an argument about that because we do not know what the figure...
Jim Murphy | 521 c61 (Link to this contribution) I was aware of that, and the hon. Gentleman will continue to make his case on it to the Government, ...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) Does the shadow Secretary of State make the following connection, as I do? Perhaps only 32% of those...
James Gray | 521 c60 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is a very beneficial improvement that rather than merely...
Jim Murphy | 521 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, the previous Government offered a compensation deal. That was not resolved....
Jim Sheridan | 521 c59 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly referred to the importance of remembrance. He is also right to identify...
Jim Murphy | 521 c59 (Link to this contribution) There were record levels of investment and support provided, with regard to the kit and equipment of...
Bob Russell | 521 c61 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State heard me put my question to the Secretary of State. Was the shadow Sec...
Jim Murphy | 521 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not think Madam Deputy Speaker would welcome an attempt by me to provide the House with a defin...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c60 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has been generous in giving way. Can he define ““independent””? I have atte...
Jim Murphy | 521 c60 (Link to this contribution) I have already welcomed the report and the fact that there will be an annual debate, but I do not we...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 521 c58 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the shadow Secretary of State will not complain too much if I chide him a little for giv...
Jim Murphy | 521 c58 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes a typically fair point in his own careful way. He is righ...
Jim Murphy | 521 c57 (Link to this contribution) There we have it, Madam Deputy Speaker —the right hon. Gentleman advocates such a timid Bill because...
Liam Fox | 521 c57 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State asks why, seven months into government, we have not made more progress...
Jim Murphy | 521 c57 (Link to this contribution) We introduced the first cross-Government strategy on the welfare of the armed forces, we doubled com...
James Gray | 521 c57 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's thesis seems to be that we are not going far enough in repairing the dama...
Jim Murphy | 521 c58 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, a former Secretary of State for Defence, is rightly proud of the work that he ...
Bob Ainsworth | 521 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) As we have descended into being a little partisan, let me ask whether my right hon. Friend remembers...
Jim Murphy | 521 c58 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that, in previous years, in very difficult circumstances, the support available to our a...
Alun Cairns | 521 c58 (Link to this contribution) If the armed forces were valued as much under the previous Administration, why, according to the con...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 521 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) That is a very valuable point. I was fortunate in that before I entered this House I worked for a fa...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c69 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow such an informed speech from a person who is well qualified to deliver th...
Daniel Byles | 521 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse my hon. Friend's concern about soldiers who come back not as part of formed units...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 521 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) I would have to consider that matter in detail. I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that perhaps he shou...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 521 c63-5 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour and a privilege to contribute to the debate. I begin by declaring my interest as a m...
Chris Bryant | 521 c65 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the non-partisan way in which the hon. Gentleman is advancing his arguments. I have...
Jim Murphy | 521 c63 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State shakes his head. I invite him to correct the record if he wishes. [Interrupti...
Bob Ainsworth | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) Have I correctly understood the figures that my right hon. Friend has just cited? Given what he has ...
Jim Murphy | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State for Defence has paid close attention to these mat...
Alun Cairns | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jim Murphy | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) Of course, but, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your understanding, I recognise that time is against us. I...
Daniel Byles | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) I am a little confused. Was the shadow Secretary of State not a member of the Government who went to...
Jim Murphy | 521 c62 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help the fact that the hon. Gentleman is confused; that is for him to resolve. The point is...
Lord Beamish | 521 c72 (Link to this contribution) I cannot accept what the hon. Gentleman is saying. It is not helpful to rubbish the most thorough re...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c72 (Link to this contribution) The way in which Mr Fletcher went about the matter was to e-mail every member of the probation servi...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c72 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to both hon. Members, but I am trying to construct an argument and do not want to ma...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c72 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and the shadow Minister are right, but then so is the hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnyd...
Lord Robathan | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) DASA's initial finding was that the figure was about 3%, but after it analysed everybody in prison w...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) I take on board what the hon. Gentleman says, and he knows that I have been discussing the matter wi...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but if I remember rightly, the methodology of that particular report was somewhat questionable....
Lord Beamish | 521 c71 (Link to this contribution) In support of the Minister, I wish to say that as the Minister who commissioned that research, I kno...
Bob Russell | 521 c70 (Link to this contribution) With the hon. Gentleman's legal experience, is he really asking that one question be added when some...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c70 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am. I know that the hon. Gentleman is very concerned about this matter. Kent police, Cheshire...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 521 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that no prejudice should be drawn to the person who is accused becaus...
Bob Russell | 521 c103 (Link to this contribution) As the Royal British Legion has driven the updating of the military covenant, perhaps its representa...
Christopher Pincher | 521 c103 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to speak in this debate. I am conscious that night draws inexorably onwards, so...
Jack Lopresti | 521 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) As I just said, the fact that for the first time the military covenant will be enshrined in law is a...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c102 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being very generous. He is absolutely right to say what ...
Oliver Colvile | 521 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a fair and timely point. Shortly before Christmas, I attended a Christmas party...
Bob Stewart | 521 c106 (Link to this contribution) When the names of the casualties are read out in this House, we always say, ““We will remember them....
Oliver Colvile | 521 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate. I am a Me...
Christopher Pincher | 521 c103-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I am sure that the Minister will take account of his suggestion...
Jack Lopresti | 521 c102 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is. I thank my hon. Friend for bringing that point to the debate. If Labour Members have an...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c102 (Link to this contribution) There is not only a £38 billion hole in the defence budget, but a £40 billion hole in respect of cut...
Jack Lopresti | 521 c101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman cannot run away from the fact. There is a £38 billion hole in the budget. He can ...
James Gray | 521 c97-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell), as is his wont, added considerably to what has been a ...
Bob Russell | 521 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) No, that is incorrect. A Ministry of Defence police officer has marginally more powers than an ordin...
James Gray | 521 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting and important point—exactly what I was driving at. Who decides w...
Daniel Byles | 521 c99 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also agree that there is a danger regarding who decides whether the law has been...
Elizabeth Truss | 521 c101 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that the result of the strategic defence review and the basing decisions now being ta...
Jack Lopresti | 521 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a serving member of the reserve forces. Unlike my smart friends who were in...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c101 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman for his valiant service overseas; I know that he still hopes to go back...
Jack Lopresti | 521 c101 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. We Members have a responsibility to ensure that, when t...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c96 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that like the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the terms of operation and the rights ...
Russell Brown | 521 c96 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman clarify the cost of an MOD officer compared to the cost of an Essex police of...
Bob Russell | 521 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. Frequently, without the understanding and support...
Simon Hart | 521 c95 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the hon. Gentleman's commendation of reservists, as an ex-reservist myself. Does he have a...
Bob Russell | 521 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) Putting aside the hon. Gentleman's closing sentence, I am aware of the counter-argument, but there i...
Bob Stewart | 521 c94 (Link to this contribution) But that is the whole point of the medals: they are awarded for service in an operational theatre. W...
Bob Russell | 521 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) At the outset, let me place on record my admiration for and appreciation of soldiers from the 16 Air...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is an excellent orator so we will all look forward to his speech, which I am sure...
James Gray | 521 c92 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to come back to this issue, but as the hon. Gentleman has mentioned me, perhaps it is rea...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) Like other Opposition Members, I would like a clause on this issue to be inserted into the Bill. As ...
Daniel Byles | 521 c91 (Link to this contribution) I will put the matter in context for the hon. Gentleman. In my nine years of service, I was posted t...
James Gray | 521 c91 (Link to this contribution) I, too, feel strongly about this matter because RAF Lyneham in my constituency is threatened, but wi...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for highlighting that school. I have specifically referred to th...
James Gray | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman considered what effect that would have on the excellent Queen Victoria school...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) I seek further clarification, because the hon. Gentleman has made an interesting point. The purpose ...
Oliver Colvile | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) I represent a naval port. Families are moved from Plymouth to Portsmouth, Faslane or Rosyth. It is d...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) I shall clear that up before giving way to the Minister: if the argument for spending £110 million a...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his offer to meet me to discuss the matter outside the House, whic...
Lord Robathan | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman may know, we are tightening up the rules on the continuity of education allowa...
Lord Robathan | 521 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) —all of the people on the Opposition Front Bench; I can remember the Labour Government of 1974 to 19...
Lord Robathan | 521 c121 (Link to this contribution) After that extremely long intervention, I notice that the right hon. Gentleman did not answer the qu...
Lord Robathan | 521 c121 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does an awful lot of chuntering. I am surprised that anyone lets him in. Finally...
Lord Robathan | 521 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I think not. There is an annual continuation order, which must be approved by both Houses every...
Lord Robathan | 521 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman were any good at maths, he would work out that one Liberal means that at...
Chris Bryant | 521 c118 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister withdraw that remark?
Lord Robathan | 521 c118 (Link to this contribution) If it is the case that the hon. Gentleman is, in fact, Welsh, contrary to all expectations and signs...
Lord Robathan | 521 c118 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot of that going on. This is not a technical Bill: it is incredibly important. Those of...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c119 (Link to this contribution) May I clarify that I have no prejudice against people choosing to spend their own money on private h...
Lord Robathan | 521 c119 (Link to this contribution) As I explained, the reason for the continuity of education allowance is so that children do not have...
Lord Robathan | 521 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) No, not again. I am sorry that I was not in the Chamber when the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Ru...
Alison Seabeck | 521 c113 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear my hon. Friend's comments about the ERG, because I am sure that we will want to...
Gemma Doyle | 521 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about the gap between Government rhetoric and action. The cu...
James Gray | 521 c113 (Link to this contribution) Excellent as the external reference group is, does the hon. Lady agree that it has one major defect,...
Gemma Doyle | 521 c113 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. As we have said, we welcome the fact that such a debate...
Lord Robathan | 521 c117 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the many hon. Members who have participated in the debate. After hearing the rather...
James Gray | 521 c116 (Link to this contribution) The coroner has been mentioned several times this evening. Will the hon. Lady take this opportunity ...
Gemma Doyle | 521 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. I would certainly agree that we want that ...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c115 (Link to this contribution) In fairness to those on the Front Bench, Rome was not built in a day, particularly when it had been ...
Gemma Doyle | 521 c116 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but I am afraid that neither was it built on the c...
Alison Seabeck | 521 c107 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman, from my neighbouring seat in Plymouth, join me in commending Hasler Company...
Oliver Colvile | 521 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) I most certainly join the hon. Lady in that, and I thank her for her intervention—I must say that I ...
James Gray | 521 c108 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that we must know not only when the Government are going to implement the ...
Bob Stewart | 521 c111 (Link to this contribution) Actually, he can get his citation, if it is a gallantry award, because it will be in the London Gaze...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c111 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. and gallant Friend. This issue was raised with me, and the MOD wrote to me saying, “...
Gemma Doyle | 521 c111-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke). We have made it clear that...
Oliver Colvile | 521 c108 (Link to this contribution) That is a very fair point. Plymouth is proud of its Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Army heritage. It...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c108-10 (Link to this contribution) I represent Dover and Deal, which today still feels like they are at the front line of the nation in...
Bob Russell | 521 c110 (Link to this contribution) The House of Commons Library has produced an excellent research paper briefing, and I suggest that M...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not certain that just chucking that in the Bill is the most important thing, but I hope very mu...
Mark Menzies | 521 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to take part in the debate. I do so not with the great knowledge of some hon. M...
Chris Bryant | 521 c86 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to respond to that, although the hon. Gentleman is enticing. By that uprooting, thos...
Chris Bryant | 521 c84-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for those comments and I will pass them on to Minerva in the Rhondda. My other reason...
Charlie Elphicke | 521 c84 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more strongly with the hon. Gentleman on that point. The sea cadets are often the ...
Chris Bryant | 521 c84 (Link to this contribution) I take on board the hon. Gentleman's point. I do not think that the Bill will do much directly for t...
Neil Carmichael | 521 c83 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the importance of cadets. I visited my local Stonehouse platoon of the Army Cadet Forc...
Chris Bryant | 521 c83 (Link to this contribution) When I have heard those accusations, as I have when political opponents in my constituency have atta...
Chris Bryant | 521 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) It is particularly appropriate that we are debating this Bill on the anniversary of the treaty of Ve...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c88 (Link to this contribution) May I begin, Mr Deputy Speaker, by wishing you and the whole House a very happy new year? [Interrupt...
Daniel Byles | 521 c90 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that when soldiers return to the UK after perhaps two years, their ...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c89 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman who, as ever, shows his fancy footwork, blaming both his Governm...
Bob Russell | 521 c89 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether I might help the hon. Gentleman by being devil's advocate and pointing out that it ...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c89 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for spelling out his position. This evening, I have tabled a written question t...
Lord Robathan | 521 c89 (Link to this contribution) I want to shoot this canard, fox or whatever you like. People in junior ranks, both officers and non...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c88 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for her comments, which allow me to point out that under the pre...
Louise Mensch | 521 c88 (Link to this contribution) Is that shameful legacy not in fact the legacy of the hon. Gentleman's Government, and are this Gove...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c88 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity provided by her sedentary comment to point out to her that we achi...
Lord Beamish | 521 c75 (Link to this contribution) I agree with comments that have been made. However, when I was veterans Minister, we introduced trac...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c75 (Link to this contribution) Such work is being done by, for example, Kent police, to which I referred earlier, and probation ser...
Daniel Byles | 521 c75 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that a common thread running through his speech is the problem of trac...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c73-5 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely right, and that is part and parcel of bringing people back into the civilian mainstream. ...
Chris Bryant | 521 c73 (Link to this contribution) I am getting slightly nervous about the hon. Gentleman's argument, because—
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and perhaps I should move away from the figures, because I cannot profess to know them prec...
Alun Cairns | 521 c73 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for underlining that point about training. Does he accept that j...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c73 (Link to this contribution) That may very well be, and we must also remember that the vast majority of those who are in prison c...
Chris Bryant | 521 c73 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is chuntering away, but if he waits until I have made my point, he can respond af...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c73 (Link to this contribution) Well, you would, wouldn't you?
Bob Russell | 521 c81 (Link to this contribution) When the Armed Forces Bill Committee considered this point three or four years ago, we were advised—...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c79-81 (Link to this contribution) I believe the Secretary of State does so in any case, but that is, of course, a matter for the Chair...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c81-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman misunderstands me. If I develop my point, perhaps I can answer his c...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c76 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I give the shadow Minister credit because I have debated matters with him and he was assidu...
Bob Stewart | 521 c77 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems in respect of Help for Heroes is that we must deal not only with the current con...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd). I particularly a...
Bob Russell | 521 c77 (Link to this contribution) May I help my hon. Friend by pointing out that the Royal British Legion, which, of course, encompass...
Andrew Murrison | 521 c77 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is, of course, absolutely right, and I think the Government have recognised that need...
Thomas Docherty | 521 c79 (Link to this contribution) While I welcome the hon. Gentleman's comments about external scrutiny of the armed forces annual rep...
Jim Murphy | 521 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) I join the Secretary of State in wishing you, Madam Deputy Speaker, Mr Speaker and the whole House a...
Bob Stewart | 521 c52 (Link to this contribution) As a past commanding officer, I think that it is an extremely good thing that more power be given ba...
Liam Fox | 521 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. The change that he refers to will not only give di...
Liam Fox | 521 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) I know that this issue was examined by the previous Government, as it has been by this Government. T...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 521 c51 (Link to this contribution) Given the harmonisation of military law across the three services, does the Secretary of State feel ...
Liam Fox | 521 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that the Government intend such a report to include health care, housing and education. ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 521 c50 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way; he is being characteristically generous...
Liam Fox | 521 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I would like gently to correct my hon. Friend's statistics: complex post-traumatic stress disorder c...
Julian Lewis | 521 c49 (Link to this contribution) While we are on the subject of cross-departmental responsibilities, will my right hon. Friend say a ...
Liam Fox | 521 c49 (Link to this contribution) I believe the concerns set out in the letter from the British Legion that all Members will have rece...
Liam Fox | 521 c48 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to the issue of the devolved bodies in a moment, but the hon. Gentleman is trying to ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 521 c48 (Link to this contribution) During evidence-taking with the Howard League for Penal Reform, one ex-chief of the armed forces sug...
Liam Fox | 521 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) The Government are certainly considering better cross-departmental working on these issues. To be fa...
Bob Ainsworth | 521 c49 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that the Royal British Legion has written to some, if not all, ...
Bob Russell | 521 c47 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his recent visit to 16th Air Assault Brigade in Helmand province ...
Liam Fox | 521 c47 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman well knows that the Government are examining basing, and will report to Parliamen...
Chris Bryant | 521 c48 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that I entirely agree with him about the moral imperative behind th...
Liam Fox | 521 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) No, not as part of the Bill. However, while the Bill sets out the framework for the covenant, there ...
Angus Robertson | 521 c47 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that there are no provisions to deal with the closure or realignment of...
Jim Murphy | 521 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point and the tone in which he makes it is above partisanship ...
Liam Fox | 521 c46 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I take this opportunity to wish Members on ...

Subjects

Disciplinary proceedings
Discipline
Courts
Armed forces
Crimes of violence
Army
British overseas territories
Air force
Coroners
Housing
Health
Education
Equipment
Leave
Private education
Pensions
Prisoners
Military police
Navy
Mental health
Schools
Training
Sexual offences
Sexual offences prevention orders
Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Chief Coroner
Veterans

Legislation

Armed Forces Bill 2010-12

Contains statistics

Yes

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