Defence Reform Bill

My Lords, I should like to talk first about the amendment before progressing to brief comments on...

My Lords, the noble Lord raises some interesting points, which the Government should take cognisa...

My Lords, these amendments have enabled the Committee to have a debate on Clause 1. As has been i...

I thank the Minister for his considered response and the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, ...

The answer to the noble Lord’s first question is no, it would not be. I will write to the noble L...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

My Lords, we had a lengthy debate at Second Reading on the Government’s decision no longer to pro...

My Lords, I declare an interest in that I work for the Cohen Group, a Washington-based consultanc...

My Lords, I believe we should give consideration to Part 1 at this time, and that it should remai...

My Lords, I will add a few points. At Second Reading, I said that I understood the weaknesses in ...

My Lords, I can claim to have spent quite a lot of time working on this particular issue, having ...

My Lords, I shall not speak about the advantages or disadvantages of a GOCO; I remain fairly neut...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to the amendments. I look at the matter from the point of view of...

My Lords, I was the last defence procurement Minister in the previous Government. It is too early...

My Lords, I start by thanking my noble friends Lord Roper and Lord Palmer for their support and I...

My point is that an affirmative resolution does not really provide any effective stop for Parliam...

I tabled our amendment after approaches from a number of noble Lords from different parts of the ...

Can the noble Lord reflect after this debate on the fact that in the House of Commons, as the Com...

My Lords, I will certainly reflect on that. We never ignore advice given by the people that the n...

First, once again, I thank the Minister for the consideration he has given to the amendments and ...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

6*: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Code...

Amendment 6 seeks to insert the code of conduct outlined in the proposed new clause. It seeks to ...

My Lords, before I address this amendment, perhaps I may reassure the noble Lord that I will writ...

Perhaps I may express my regrets. I did not hear it. I accept fully what the noble Lord has said....

I shall certainly write. I said that officials were in discussions with Her Majesty’s Treasury an...

The Minister was reading rather quickly. Did he say that the quarantine period was to be three mo...

Yes, I did. I shall be able to answer the noble Lord’s question at the end.

Applications fr...

I do not want to pre-empt my noble friend, but there is an air of astonishment around the Grand C...

Can my noble friend clarify whether the minimum three months would relate to an employment which ...

My noble friend makes a very good point, which I was just going to mention. The period is three m...

Once again, I thank the Minister for the thoroughness of his reply on the amendment explaining th...

My Lords, I will be very happy to do that; in fact I was going to offer to write to the noble Lor...

In that case, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Rosser

7: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Duty ...

This group also contains Amendment 9. Amendment 7 addresses the issue of scrutiny and transparenc...

My Lords, I would be grateful if my noble friend in replying to this debate could give us more in...

My Lords, Amendment 7 would require the Secretary of State to withhold approval on any relevant c...

Before my noble friend sits down, could he explain—I thought I understood this but now understand...

My Lords, I totally agree with my noble friend. Before Committee I had a long debate with the tea...

Once again I thank the Minister for his detailed response. I make two brief comments. Clearly the...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

8: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Trans...

The amendment inserts a new clause after Clause 1 to provide that employees transferred to a comp...

My Lords, going back to the previous amendment, the noble Lord asked me about risk. I can confirm...

I thank the Minister for his detailed and considered response, which I will read carefully in Han...

My Lords, this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.