Lord Houghton of Richmond

My Lords, can the Minister confirm that the following precis of programme A activity rings true? The F35As are not additional to the programme; they r...

My Lords, I echo the words of those who have said, and will no doubt go on to say, what a pleasure it was to be in the Chamber to bear witness to a mo...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on the strategy, which is both considered and sobering. It is considered because it strikes all the right bala...

My Lords, does not the Minister crystallise in what he says the stupidity of the situation in which we find ourselves? The declaration that at all cos...

I briefly add my congratulations to the authorship of this review. It is, in my view, the most considered, professional and comprehensive review that ...

My Lords, when it comes to opportunity, a ubiquitous one is service in the Armed Forces, which offers access to the greatest number of apprenticeships...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow my good friend, the noble Lord, Lord Marland, and have this opportunity to make a small and relatively brief contri...

My Lords, in the context of additional defence funding, what is now the Government’s dominant policy consideration about how that funding should be sp...

My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I am sorry that I have missed some of it. I declare a relevant interest in t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for sharing the Statement. In the context of tactical action, it is not a bad tactical response. Having read it only ju...