Armed Forces Bill
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768 cc2358-2422 Session
2015-16Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016
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Proceeding contributions
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. It is a pleasure to be speaking...
My Lords, military justice has come a very long way since the days—as happened to me many years a...
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My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the Bill. I do not propose to follow the c...
My Lords, the main purpose of the Bill has been fully outlined by the Minister. It is well unders...
My Lords, by happy coincidence, this debate takes place almost exactly on the anniversary of the ...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very clear exposition of the Bill. I have spent a mere 43 ...
My Lords, I support the Bill and will ask the Minister to consider one issue that he has not touc...
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton. It was only a few ...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow on from the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady ...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Earl on the lucid way in which he introduced this legislation....
My Lords, I begin by congratulating my noble friend Lady Pidding on her excellent maiden speech. ...
My Lords, for the last two and a half months I have had the privilege of chairing the Joint Commi...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure for me to follow the very eloquent maiden speech of the noble Lo...
My Lords, I feel privileged to give my maiden speech, in this Second Reading debate on the Armed ...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure and privilege to be the first to thank the noble Lord, Lord Shin...
My Lords, I welcome and support this Bill and I also warmly congratulate my noble friends Lady Pi...
My Lords, I am genuinely glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, as much of what she said ...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd, who was a distinguished Nav...
My Lords, I want to touch today on two matters: first, briefly, Clause 14, a provision which I pa...
My Lords, I add my congratulations to the three maiden speakers today. They were exemplary. I hav...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comprehensive introduction and declare an interest as an e...
My Lords, the Minister started this debate by saying that the Armed Forces Bill would renew the A...
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for his explanation of the Bill and to ou...
I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. The thrust of Sergeant Blackman’s case is that he...
I am grateful for that. I was going to say that he is a good man but he has fouled up, and has be...
My Lords, I ask the House’s indulgence to say a few words in the gap. As one who has spent all my...
My Lords, this has indeed been a fascinating debate. The range of experience and expertise on all...
My Lords, the House will perhaps understand if I say I have a feeling I have been here before—a s...
My Lords, I am sure that all noble Lords will agree that we have had a very good debate today wit...
I thank the Minister for the very positive response to the points we raised, but the covenant was...
My Lords, as I said, and I hope the noble Lord will agree, it is very important that we get this ...
Will the Minister say something about the firms, one of which, Leigh Day, has, I think, gone thro...
These are matters currently under scrutiny. The firms that the noble Lord mentioned are, I unders...
Can the Minister update us on the International Criminal Court preliminary examination? Where are...
I fear that I cannot. I will need to write to the noble Lord about that and I will be happy to do...
The noble Earl will know that murder is under universal jurisdiction. Do I take it that murder ca...
My Lords, as I said, there is a protocol which lays down pretty clear guidelines as to how indivi...
I am sorry to intervene. That sounds very good news but I stress again that three to five people ...
That is a very pertinent point to make and the Government are fully aware of the need to make spe...
I thank the Minister for that. My main point was that if the statement is made
I will reflect on that point in the customary way and write to the noble Lord about that suggesti...
My Lords, I am in favour of annual reporting and we pushed that hard last time. I mentioned that ...
I will, of course, take that away as well. I simply say that delivery of the covenant extends to ...