Debate on select committee report on Thursday, 6 March 2025, in the House of Lords, led by Lord De Mauley. The answering member was Lord Coaker.

Ukraine (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)

Lords motion to take note of the first report of the International Relations and Defence Committee on Ukraine: a wake-up call (HL 10). Agreed to on question.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 844 cc97-147GC
Session: 2024-26
Department: Ministry of Defence; International Relations and Defence Committee
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords Grand Committee
Related items: Ukraine: a wake-up call. International Relations and Defence Committee first report
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions: Lord Coaker | 844 c140GC (Link to this contribution)
Well, I hope I do not have to answer the last question.; 844 c140GC (Link to this contribution)
Oh!; Lord De Mauley | 844 cc97-100GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak today as chairman of the International Relations and Defence Committee to intro...; Lord Liddle | 844 cc99-101GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley. I think it is an appropriate th...; Lord Alderdice | 844 cc101-3GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by thanking our previous chair of the committee, the noble Lord, Lord Ashton of...; Baroness Coussins | 844 cc103-4GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I also have the privilege of being a member of the International Relations and Defence ...; Lord Grocott | 844 cc104-6GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, our Select Committee was half way through its taking of evidence when we were rudely in...; Lord Howell of Guildford | 844 cc106-8GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was not a member of this excellent committee, but I think that this is an absolutely ...; Lord Stirrup | 844 cc108-9GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the members of the International Relations and Defence Committee on this...; Lord Anderson of Swansea | 844 cc109-111GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, those were wise words from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup. I join him in cong...; Lord Soames of Fletching | 844 cc111-2GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, and, before him, the n...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 844 cc112-4GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, on introducing this excellent repo...; Lord Sahota | 844 cc113-5GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is conventional wisdom across all cultures and societies that when someone visits yo...; Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie | 844 cc115-7GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a huge privilege to serve on the International Relations and Defence Committee an...; Lord Alton of Liverpool | 844 cc117-8GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this excellent Select Committee report offers an urgent and timely analysis, rightly st...; Lord Risby | 844 cc118-120GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord De Mauley and the members of the International Rela...; Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 844 cc120-1GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the International Relations and Defence Committee’s report, which was so eloquently int...; Baroness Helic | 844 cc121-3GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome this debate and commend the committee’s excellent, timely and necessary repor...; Lord Hogan-Howe | 844 cc123-4GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak not as an expert in any of the military or diplomatic matters that noble Lords ...; Lord Coaker | 844 c124GC (Link to this contribution)
I can feel his presence.; Lord Hogan-Howe | 844 cc124-5GC (Link to this contribution)
We probably ought to name one of them after him. But they do not grow on trees; they do not arriv...; Lord Shinkwin | 844 cc125-6GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by echoing the praise of the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, for our hereditary collea...; Baroness Tyler of Enfield | 844 cc126-8GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join others in congratulating the committee on producing a first-class report, which ...; Lord Roberts of Belgravia | 844 cc128-9GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, welcome this excellent report, which struck me as a model of its kind. Of cours...; Lord Tyrie | 844 cc129-131GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have before us a very important report at an important time, indeed a turning point....; Baroness Fall | 844 cc131-2GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, like other noble Lords, I congratulate the chair and members of the committee on this t...; Lord Skidelsky | 844 cc132-4GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will not speak directly to the proposals of the report to improve our military capabi...; Lord Balfe | 844 cc134-5GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, your Lordships can always tell when they are getting to the end of a debate, because th...; Lord Skidelsky | 844 c135GC (Link to this contribution)
Hear, hear!; Lord Balfe | 844 c135GC (Link to this contribution)
See, I said I would get no cheer.
3.33 pm; Lord Houghton of Richmond | 844 cc135-6GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I am sorry that I have ...; Baroness Smith of Newnham | 844 cc136-9GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. Like others, I thank the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley...; Baroness Goldie | 844 cc139-141GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it has been a pleasure, albeit a sombre one, to listen to this debate. I first pay trib...; Lord Coaker | 844 cc142-6GC (Link to this contribution)
Anyway, I first declare an interest: my son-in-law is in the Mercian Regiment in the reserves, an...; Lord De Mauley | 844 cc144-8GC (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sure that noble Lords all want to rush away and catch their trains, so I will only...
Subjects: Armed forces Defence Armed conflict Defence equipment Finance Infrastructure Innovation Recruitment Manufacturing industries Nuclear weapons Procurement Electronic warfare Labour turnover Ukraine Military alliances Reserve forces USA NATO Russia Unmanned air systems Antiaircraft missiles Antisatellite weapons UK relations with EU Hybrid warfare
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Ukraine (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)

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