Defence Reform Bill

My Lords, during consideration of this Bill in the House of Commons, the Secretary of State made ...

The end of next year?

I shall read that again. I refer to the period immediately after we come out of Afghanistan and f...

The Minister mentions the SDSR of 2015. That is presumably ongoing at the moment as 2015 is, afte...

My Lords, I will try to answer the noble Lord’s question when I respond to other noble Lords’ que...

One of the joys of having amendments in a group where the Government have the first amendment is ...

My Lords, I generally support the intention behind Amendments 18 and 18C but I draw attention to ...

My Lords, we, too, welcome the Minister’s Amendment 18. As he said, there was broad support for t...

I would like to say a few words in relation to some of the more general issues concerned here. I ...

My noble friend is saying some important things but does he agree that if the Government are seri...

Indeed, my noble friend makes an extremely good point. In many ways, it goes without saying. It m...

My Lords, first, the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, asked in some detail about the next SDSR. I assu...

My Lords, the Minister made a full and comprehensive speech under Amendment 18. It was a very goo...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord for the length of my speech on the last clause. It contai...

My Lords, I must have given the wrong impression. In no sense was I complaining about the length ...

I apologise. Perhaps I misunderstood when the noble Lord referred to Second Reading speeches. Any...

I thank the noble Lord and totally agree about this. The reserves have done a wonderful job. I pa...

The noble Lord makes a very good point. I will take away the points he made earlier about Clause ...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

18A: After Clause 47, insert the following new Clause—

“Re...

I almost feel as if I am once again moving an amendment after the debate on it has already taken ...

My Lords, reserves have always made an essential contribution to national security and that contr...

Once again, I thank the Minister for that comprehensive reply and for the information that he has...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

18B: After Clause 47, insert the following new Clause—

“Tr...

Amendment 18B seeks to amend the Equality Act 2010 to prevent discrimination against reservists i...

My Lords, I have considerable sympathy for the spirit of the amendments spoken to by the noble Lo...

My noble friend’s amendment is testimony to what I spoke about earlier—the complete commitment on...

My Lords, we recognise and value the contribution of reservists and need to be sure that their in...

Would the noble Lord be kind enough to address my point about the National Guard in relation to A...

The noble Lord makes a very good point about the National Guard, and I apologise if I did not ref...

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Garden, for...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

18E: After Clause 47, insert the following new Clause—

“Am...

Amendment 18E seeks to amend the Criminal Justice Act 2003 so that physical or verbal assault upo...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister will include in his reply what instances there have been of co...

My Lords, when in 2007 I chaired the national inquiry into the national recognition of the Armed ...

My Lords, perhaps I may ask for some elucidation. I accept all the points that the noble Lord has...

My Lords, I do not know that I should get into the habit of answering questions across the Floor....

My Lords, I am sure that I speak for all of us in saying that we hold the same view about discrim...

I thank my noble friend Lord Davies for his contribution and support and also the noble Lord, Lor...