Armed Forces Bill

This Bill delivers for our armed forces, renews the Armed Forces Act 2006, improves the service j...

The Minister rightly refers to Sir Richard Henriques’ report. Sir Richard is someone for whom I h...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, which brings me to my next point. Sir Richa...

The evidential base that seems to have been in the news this last while shows a rise in the incid...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Given the reports of increased allegations of sexual misco...

The Minister rightly refers to the improvements in the service justice system, which we all recog...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. In addition to the formation of the defence serious crimes ...

I welcome the setting up of the serious crimes unit, but it is a matter of fact, as we heard in e...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. That is why we are trying to consolidate experience ...

Would the Minister care to comment on something that the hon. Member for Wrexham (Sarah Atherton)...

In simple terms, there are circumstances —normally involving the welfare of the alleged victim—in...

This Bill has so much to recommend it, and it is so good. I also want to pay tribute to my hon. F...

I thank my hon. Friend for her question and for her comments about my hon. Friend the Member for ...

Who chooses the jurisdiction in which such a case is heard? What grounds would they hear to infor...

The civilian prosecutor always has the final say.

It is clear that Lords amendment 2 fails ...

The Minister is being most generous with his time, for which I thank him profoundly. He will know...

I do not doubt the commendable spirit behind the noble Lord’s intention, but this is a case of un...

I remind the House that this debate finishes at 8.39 pm, so we do not have a lot of opportunity. ...

It is truly an honour to be standing in front of you, Mr Deputy Speaker, in my new role as shadow...

Those statistics bear out a significant concern that also exists in the civilian jurisdiction. Th...

The hon. Gentleman’s expertise in this area is clear for all in this House to see. He is absolute...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that perhaps a sensible compromise might be to have this matter com...

I pay tribute to the hon. Lady’s experience and expertise, particularly in the field of foreign a...

I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. My hon. Friend ment...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s personal and political expertise in this area. He is absolutely...

As I rise to speak in this debate, I first pay tribute to the officials in the Department. I know...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it takes enormous courage for anyone to go to court in cases of ch...

I do agree with those observations. To be honest, when I came into my role as the Veterans Minist...

What?

Not in here but in what is coming forward from the Department. It places my hon. Friend the Membe...

Unbelievable.

Sorry—does the right hon. Gentleman have an intervention to make?

The hon. Gentleman was the Minister who took the Bill through Committee; if he felt so strongly a...

The right hon. Gentleman will understand that he was nowhere near the Department when I was a Min...

You are just rewriting history.

The right hon. Gentleman is more than welcome to make a freedom of information request to the Min...

rose—

I am not going to give way. I am absolutely not going to give way for another interlude like that...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument and I certainly think that these issues are best dea...

That is a really fair point. Such provision has not existed before and it is always dangerous whe...

It was certainly interesting to listen to the contribution from the former Minister, the hon. Mem...

Order. We do not have very long left, so I am hoping that Members will take only five minutes in ...

May I make a few very short points to amplify those things that I mentioned in the course of inte...

Four minutes each. I call Matt Rodda.

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill).

W...

I will speak to Lords amendments 2 to 13.

In principle, I welcome the Bill, which will stre...

I rise as a supporter of the military justice system. The problem here is the idea that anyone se...