Monthly Archives: September 2010

Backbench Business – [4th allotted day] – Strategic Defence and Security Review | Bill Presented – Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill | Commons debates

I hope that the hon. Gentleman will excuse me if I make a little progress first. I listened to my hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces, who, with characteristic elegance, endeavoured to…

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Backbench Business – [4th allotted day] – Strategic Defence and Security Review | Bill Presented – Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill | Commons debates

We must agree about that. That takes me to the points that the Chairman of the Defence Committee made with great directness. I think that I am the last member of the 1997 Defence Committee still…

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Backbench Business – [4th allotted day] – Strategic Defence and Security Review | Bill Presented – Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill | Commons debates

I apologise to the House and to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Defence for not being present when the debate began. I was taken aback by the speed with which the previous business was…

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Backbench Business – [4th allotted day] – Strategic Defence and Security Review | Bill Presented – Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill | Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman knows that my views are rather different from his, but I applaud his call for an open debate. On whether the funding should come from the defence budget as presently…

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Renewable Heat Incentive

Menzies Campbell has signed EDM143. Motion reads: “That this House notes the major contribution that renewable heat can make in meeting the UK’s legally binding renewable energy target, creating green jobs and reducing dependency on imported fossil fue…

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