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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 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

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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Human Rights | Oral Answers to Questions – Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Commons debates

While I understand the importance of the monitoring of human rights, does the Foreign Secretary accept that its promotion is just as, if not more, important? What steps are Her Majesty’s…

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Sharing Military Equipment | Oral Answers to Questions – Defence | Commons debates

Does the Secretary of State accept that there may be circumstances in which it is more effective to share responsibilities rather than equipment? Will he tell the House whether, as a result of…

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