Armed Forces Bill. Programme motion (No. 2) on proceedings in Committee of the Whole House, on Report and Third reading. Agreed to on question. Committee stage first day. New clause 12 debated and added to the Bill. Clause 1 agreed to. Clause 2, discussed with new clauses 2 to 6, 13, 14 and 17, debated and agreed to as amended. Clauses 3 to 33 agreed to, with clause 31 agreed to as amended. Schedules 1 to 5 agreed to. New clause 1, discussed with new clause 16, debated and withdrawn. New clause 7, discussed with new clause 11, debated and withdrawn. New clause 15 debated and negatived on division (10 votes to 282). New clause 17 negatived on division (213 votes to 291).
Armed Forces Bill
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Tuesday, 14 June 2011,
in the House of Commons.
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Robathan | 529 c742-3 (Link to this contribution)
I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman is being deliberately obtuse. The point is that the Governm...
Angus Robertson | 529 c743 (Link to this contribution)
I pointed out that the coalition parties made a pledge on transparency in their agreement. They said...
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Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 529 c742 (Link to this contribution)
I stand as a member of a Unionist party in Northern Ireland that is proud to be part of the United K...
Lord Robathan | 529 c742 (Link to this contribution)
Information on employment is quite readily available with a little bit of hard work, but I am afraid...
Angus Robertson | 529 c742 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister points out that because a caveat in the coalition agreement suggests that the publicati...
Lord Robathan | 529 c733-4 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Members for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) and for Hayes and Harlington (John McDo...
Lord Robathan | 529 c735-6 (Link to this contribution)
I hear from a sedentary position the suggestion that perhaps the previous Government did not take an...
Cathy Jamieson | 529 c735 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister may have been about to answer my question. What action has been taken since the UNCRC 2...
Lord Robathan | 529 c735 (Link to this contribution)
That has been policy since before I joined the armed forces, which I am afraid to say was in 1970. [...
John McDonnell | 529 c735 (Link to this contribution)
So that we get absolute clarity, it is the unanimous view of the Committee, therefore, that no minor...
Lord Robathan | 529 c735 (Link to this contribution)
I think the hon. Lady has in her hand a parliamentary answer that I gave her on exactly this issue. ...
Tessa Munt | 529 c734-5 (Link to this contribution)
I could not agree more that young people should be in college or in education of one sort or another...
Lord Robathan | 529 c734 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right. I could not agree more. We get some very high quality people—I presente...
Lord Beamish | 529 c734 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister agree that although there are such individuals, there are also many who go, for ex...
Julian Huppert | 529 c736 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for answering all my questions. My only reservation is that I hope that the tim...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c737 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman knows full well that if he had his way and Scotland was independent, the MOD foot...
Angus Robertson | 529 c736-7 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, that the clause be read a Second time.
It is a pleasure to speak in favour of new cl...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 529 c741 (Link to this contribution)
We are talking about the publication of information and statistics that were previously published an...
Angus Robertson | 529 c741 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman because that is the crucial question. The information was v...
Lord Robathan | 529 c741-2 (Link to this contribution)
Having listened to the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson), I have to say that I thought his ind...
Angus Robertson | 529 c741 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman makes a point that everybody should understand. Providing the information i...
Nick Harvey | 529 c740 (Link to this contribution)
Our position then, as today, was that we are only too ready to share with hon. Members any informati...
Angus Robertson | 529 c737-40 (Link to this contribution)
I am interested in the hon. Lady's intervention. I am sorry that she did not take the opportunity to...
Mel Stride | 529 c740 (Link to this contribution)
I am not clear whether the hon. Gentleman is arguing that there is some value to the MOD in exercisi...
Angus Robertson | 529 c740 (Link to this contribution)
I am terribly sorry, but I just do not think that is good enough. I know that the Minister has just ...
Angus Robertson | 529 c727 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes valid criticisms of the SDSR, but I am talking specifically about the proce...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c726-7 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman says that the information might have been well thought out within the Ministry of...
Angus Robertson | 529 c724-6 (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty). I have l...
Lord Robathan | 529 c728-9 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister for the Armed Forces has been dealing with specific bases. I am afraid that I cannot gi...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c728 (Link to this contribution)
I asked earlier what discussions the MOD had been having with stakeholders such as the Scottish Gove...
Lord Robathan | 529 c727-8 (Link to this contribution)
I have huge sympathy for those who have been put in a position of uncertainty and, perhaps, adversel...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c727 (Link to this contribution)
The Government have created a huge amount of worry and uncertainty through their decisions about bas...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c729-30 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 11—
Julian Huppert | 529 c729 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Thomas Docherty | 529 c730 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has referred several times to under-18s having a right to leave. I had the privil...
Julian Huppert | 529 c730 (Link to this contribution)
It is a great pleasure to move this amendment in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for W...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c730 (Link to this contribution)
I have heard the argument about five or six years before. When personnel turn 18, they have an absol...
Julian Huppert | 529 c730 (Link to this contribution)
They do not have the right to leave before they turn 18. After the first six months, a 17-year-old, ...
John McDonnell | 529 c731 (Link to this contribution)
I want, briefly, to support new clause 7 and I also want to express my thanks to the Minister for hi...
Julian Huppert | 529 c730-1 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point, but I think he would agree that somebody who joins on the...
John McDonnell | 529 c731-2 (Link to this contribution)
I can assure him that it will not last for long.
I also want to argue in favour of new clause 11. M...
Lord Robathan | 529 c731 (Link to this contribution)
It is amazing.
Tessa Munt | 529 c732 (Link to this contribution)
I thought this might be a good opportunity to point out that new clause 7 would alleviate some of th...
John McDonnell | 529 c732-3 (Link to this contribution)
I think that new clause 7 would bring an immense improvement to current practices and I support it, ...
Angus Robertson | 529 c721 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the problem is not just the distress caused to the service and no...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c721-2 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. One thing that the Government have not yet fully grasped is th...
Lord Robathan | 529 c722 (Link to this contribution)
Were any Minister to try to slip something out on the last day, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wo...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c722 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister for that, and I am happy to confirm that I will not be going anywhere ...
Bob Russell | 529 c720 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman explain what a Labour Government would be doing differently, because I have ...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c722-3 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister shakes his head. I understand that there might be some vacancies coming up at the Depar...
Lord Robathan | 529 c722 (Link to this contribution)
indicated dissent.
Thomas Docherty | 529 c723-4 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention; I know that he takes a keen interest in the a...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 529 c723 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case. He referred earlier to the unique context in which he ...
Lord Robathan | 529 c704-8 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support.
Our amendments do not seek to introduce new constr...
Christopher Pincher | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend think that this is rather rich coming from Labour Members, and certainly f...
Lord Robathan | 529 c708-9 (Link to this contribution)
If Members have come in at the behest of the Whips because they expect a Division, they might as wel...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c708 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I ask right hon. and hon. Members to keep the noise down. We want to hear the response from t...
Lord Robathan | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
I do not regret the process at all. What has happened—I would have thought that the hon. Lady had sp...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Does the right hon. Gentleman regret the process by which the Bill has come about? What exactly chan...
Lord Robathan | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Contrary to what the hon. Lady says from a sedentary position—perhaps she is reading what is on her ...
Lord Robathan | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman, together with the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire, is continuing to fish for...
Lord Beamish | 529 c704 (Link to this contribution)
So why did the Minister, along with his Liberal Democrat colleagues, argue forcefully in Committee o...
Lord Robathan | 529 c711 (Link to this contribution)
Well, one is that the amendment, no doubt with the best of intentions, describes in more detail the ...
Lyn Brown | 529 c711 (Link to this contribution)
I'm looking forward to it.
Lord Robathan | 529 c710-1 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman talks about the ““forward thing””, but we have to do the sums, and I am afraid hi...
Lord Walney | 529 c710 (Link to this contribution)
I'll take her out.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c709 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I ask right hon. and hon. Members once again to be courteous and to listen to the responses. ...
Lord Beamish | 529 c710 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry, but if the Minister reads the NAO report, he will see that it states that the figure is ...
Lord Beamish | 529 c710 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?
Lord Robathan | 529 c710 (Link to this contribution)
I do not think the hon. Gentleman needs to offer to do that. That is a bit sexist, if you ask me, bu...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c719-20 (Link to this contribution)
New clause 1 stands in my name and those of several colleagues. It is a pleasure, once again, Dr McC...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c718-9 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Lord Robathan | 529 c713 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point, and I know that he takes the matter very seriously. We ...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 529 c713 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with the Minister that results and outcomes are the most important thing, but with reference...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c718 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c713 (Link to this contribution)
I am not altogether happy with the Minister's response—in fact, I am desperately unhappy with it—but...
Lord Robathan | 529 c711-2 (Link to this contribution)
He obviously does not realise that.
By coincidence, the external reference group is meeting tomorro...
Lord Robathan | 529 c712-3 (Link to this contribution)
Unfortunately, as the Members on either side of the hon. Lady—the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr J...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c712 (Link to this contribution)
It is somewhat rich for the Minister to say that it is we who are treating inquests as an afterthoug...
Lord Robathan | 529 c695 (Link to this contribution)
Very unlikely, if I may say so—as the hon. Lady has already suggested.
If the hon. Lady is still in...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c695 (Link to this contribution)
I give the Minister a categorical assurance that I will mention it. My concern is whether the Secret...
Sandra Osborne | 529 c695 (Link to this contribution)
I am quite surprised to hear my hon. Friend say that. I understood in the Select Committee that the ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c695 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree, but the correspondence I have seen does not indicate that that is the case.
Lord Robathan | 529 c695-6 (Link to this contribution)
I think the Opposition are fishing in desperation for things to get excited about, but they do not n...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c696 (Link to this contribution)
The letter that the right hon. Gentleman has read out does not address the point I just made. Consti...
Christopher Pincher | 529 c696 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady talks about honouring the armed services. Does she not think that a £38 billion black ...
Chris Bryant | 529 c696 (Link to this contribution)
I am interested in outcomes as well. One of my concerns has been that armed forces personnel who liv...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c696 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to see the hon. Gentleman justify and explain that figure. It is not true, as he knows...
Bob Stewart | 529 c698 (Link to this contribution)
I am a bit worried about including inquests in the annual report. This is such a sensitive area and ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c698 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his observations. I certainly appreciate his concerns. There is great...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 529 c697 (Link to this contribution)
What is the hon. Lady's estimate of the cost of extending that body of advocates?
Gemma Doyle | 529 c697-8 (Link to this contribution)
I envisage that the advocates would be drawn from the staff already working in Departments, who are ...
Andrew Murrison | 529 c699 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Lady, who is being very generous. Trowbridge is in my constituency and it ...
James Gray | 529 c698 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is being extremely generous with her time. I am slightly concerned by her observation ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c698-9 (Link to this contribution)
As the hon. Gentleman knows, the office of the chief coroner was set up, following a great deal of c...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c699-700 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The office of the chief coroner would seek to address some of...
Denis MacShane | 529 c700 (Link to this contribution)
For a number of years I dealt with the case of a constituent of mine who had served in Iraq, been wo...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c700 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend highlights the reason to have such ombudsmen. It is essential that there should...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c702 (Link to this contribution)
I sympathise entirely with the hon. Gentleman's concerns. Does he think that it would have been appr...
Bob Russell | 529 c702 (Link to this contribution)
I have no knowledge of that, but the hon. Lady has made the point and there will no doubt be a respo...
Bob Russell | 529 c700-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful. Thank you.
I would like to confine my remarks on this string of amendments to the na...
Andrew Murrison | 529 c701 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give the Government credit for including service children in the pupil premi...
Bob Russell | 529 c701-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and am delighted to endorse that point. The pupil pr...
Lord Robathan | 529 c702-3 (Link to this contribution)
I will respond initially to some of the points raised by the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell...
Bob Russell | 529 c703 (Link to this contribution)
May I just point out that the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) and I got not a single penny w...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c702 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The Minister cannot question the hon. Lady because she does not have the Floor.
Bob Russell | 529 c702 (Link to this contribution)
This is a serious issue. To the best of my knowledge, the MOD police are an integral part of the wid...
Lord Robathan | 529 c702 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed there will be if I may intervene. Has the hon. Lady visited the headquarters of the MOD polic...
Lord Robathan | 529 c703-4 (Link to this contribution)
I do not think that we want to revisit debates from 1996 and I doubt that you, Dr McCrea, would allo...
Lord Robathan | 529 c703 (Link to this contribution)
Oh, apparently we can be blamed.
Lord Beamish | 529 c703 (Link to this contribution)
If the previous Conservative Government had not sold off the estate to Annington Homes, which the Mi...
Lord Robathan | 529 c703 (Link to this contribution)
Well, the hon. Gentlemen obviously got parachutes, which might not be my intention for one or two ot...
Lord Beamish | 529 c703 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?
Lord Robathan | 529 c689-90 (Link to this contribution)
At the risk of incurring your wrath, Mr Gale, I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman and the House ...
Bob Stewart | 529 c690 (Link to this contribution)
I just want to make one comment, which is that a heck of a lot of people leave the armed forces and ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c690 (Link to this contribution)
I am delighted to congratulate Wing Commander Milroy on that—it is a well-deserved honour for a lot ...
Bob Stewart | 529 c690 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you very much!
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c690 (Link to this contribution)
I agree entirely and I do not want to give the false impression that the majority of service leavers...
Lord Beamish | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
Stop making them up then.
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c690-1 (Link to this contribution)
I will move to finish my remarks fairly quickly because we are subject to some rather strange remark...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
I am not making them up.
Lord Beamish | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
I know that discussion of this issue can be a bit like ““Groundhog Day””, but when I was a Minister,...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
I will tell the hon. Gentleman why, if we have time to talk turkey. They are disputed because of the...
Bob Russell | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady accept that what we have before us is a vast improvement on the situation a year ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c692-3 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you for that clarification, Mr Gale. I will speak to amendments 16 and 17 and to new clauses 1...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c692 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Lady may speak to any of the amendments that have been grouped. They will be moved, ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c692 (Link to this contribution)
I wish to move amendments 16 and 17—is that in order, Mr Gale?
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c691-2 (Link to this contribution)
I agree. The only slight note of caution I would add is that, whatever the figure, there are a numbe...
James Gray | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
May I make a subtler point, rather than disputing the numbers? Although some of the people we are di...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
They certainly did, but the hon. Gentleman and I can argue about that elsewhere. I am sure that they...
Lord Beamish | 529 c691 (Link to this contribution)
indicated dissent.
Gemma Doyle | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
The amendments tabled today are a vast improvement on the Bill as it stood. If the hon. Gentleman ag...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c694 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Without amendment 16, there will be no requirement whatever ...
Chris Bryant | 529 c693-4 (Link to this contribution)
In her amendment 16, my hon. Friend draws a distinction—unlike the Bill—between health care and ment...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c694 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He and I have debated that point before and, as he ...
Christopher Pincher | 529 c694 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. It was a pleasure to serve with her on the Select Com...
Lord Robathan | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
We have plenty of time.
Gemma Doyle | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
On frequent occasions, the right hon. Gentleman has acknowledged that plenty was done for veterans u...
Lord Robathan | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
The point the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell) was trying to make was that between 1997 and ...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to make a little progress before the Minister—
Lord Robathan | 529 c694 (Link to this contribution)
When the Secretary of State comes to the House to make his annual report and, if the hon. Lady is st...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 529 c677-8 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to speak briefly in support of new clause 12, but I must start by declaring my interes...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c677 (Link to this contribution)
Unfortunately, the Secretary of State did not make that clear when asked about this matter. If he or...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 529 c678-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am making the point that we must be careful how we use these powers. The point I was coming on to ...
Sandra Osborne | 529 c678 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman feel from his personal experience that if people are constantly going to be ...
Lord Robathan | 529 c674-6 (Link to this contribution)
The new clause reflects the importance that the Government place on their reserve forces, and amendm...
Lord Robathan | 529 c677 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is making a good point, but I have to say that I am unsighted of the 1985 Act. I thoug...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c676-7 (Link to this contribution)
Let me begin by paying tribute to the men and women who serve our country as reservists. They show i...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 529 c679 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. I would like to commend both this Government and previous one...
Christopher Pincher | 529 c679 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is quite right to say that we should be careful how we use these powers. Does he agre...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c679 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, pay tribute to the work of the reserve forces. Some time ago I was in Iraq and I was pleasan...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c686 (Link to this contribution)
That is a sensible suggestion, and I am pleased that it is on the record. The hon. Gentleman is righ...
Chris Bryant | 529 c686 (Link to this contribution)
For the record, I think it is a shame that the full range of views in the House were not represented...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c684-6 (Link to this contribution)
I am pleased to be able to speak to the amendments, but also rather baffled by the fact that I was u...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c681-4 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Lord Robathan | 529 c680 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his confirmation.
Question put and agreed to.
New clause 12 accordi...
Lord Robathan | 529 c679-80 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) and to other Members who ha...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c686-7 (Link to this contribution)
I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman makes that point with complete sincerity, but the Secretary ...
Oliver Heald | 529 c686 (Link to this contribution)
Having served on Committees with the right hon. Gentleman, I know that he always makes an important ...
Chris Bryant | 529 c687 (Link to this contribution)
Unlike in Parliament!
Lord Robathan | 529 c674 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c689 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that is right—I have no argument with that—but what is to prevent signposting and sending ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c689 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is right and I do welcome that. It is a step forward, for sure.
Chris Bryant | 529 c689 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman has rightly referred to drug and alcohol abuse, which is unfortunately prev...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c689 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman misses my point. That Minister would look at every single Department in turn, inc...
Sandra Osborne | 529 c689 (Link to this contribution)
I, for one, would love to see a dedicated Department for veterans in this country, notwithstanding t...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c688 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her very generous comments, but I visited the United States in September a...
James Gray | 529 c688-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am a little uneasy about the right hon. Gentleman's proposal about a Minister in the Cabinet Offic...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c687-8 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, as the hon. Gentleman humorously says, unlike in Parliament, but let me return to my serious po...
Louise Mensch | 529 c688 (Link to this contribution)
It is a great pleasure to be able to intervene on the right hon. Gentleman and take this opportunity...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c729 (Link to this contribution)
I will be brief, as an important set of new clauses are to be discussed next and I know colleagues w...
Thomas Docherty | 529 c720-1 (Link to this contribution)
I will happily answer the hon. Gentleman's question. In fact, I would point him towards his colleagu...
Lord Robathan | 529 c710 (Link to this contribution)
Well, Dr McCrea—[Hon. Members: ““Give way!””] Go on then, why not?
Lord Robathan | 529 c695 (Link to this contribution)
May I help the hon. Lady?
Bob Russell | 529 c700 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the coalition Government on bringing forward the armed forces covenant. I served thro...
Lord Robathan | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady give way?
Gemma Doyle | 529 c693 (Link to this contribution)
I should at least like to finish my sentence if that is all right.
New clause 17 would fully enshri...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 529 c674 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 14 and 15.
Lord Robathan | 529 c709-10 (Link to this contribution)
For those who have arrived recently, it would be discourteous of me to not respond to those who have...
Gemma Doyle | 529 c696-7 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. My concern is about how that will happen. I do not believe that t...
Elfyn Llwyd | 529 c681 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment 2, page 2, line 5, leave out 'Secretary of State' and insert"'Minister for F...
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