Speeches by Foord.

“Some countries are pretty obvious; others a little less so.”

“How are the new arrangements going to be monitored with the new destinations?”

“Mr Bryant, you talked about and listed the new destinations. I wonder what undertakings those nations had to give to be treated as trusted partners.”

“Universities have a trusted research approach and there is a lot of self-regulation in the academic sector in this space. I know that there has been discussion in the past about how, if universities and research institutions do not regulate themselves, the state might choose to step in and regulate this space more.”

““Delayed” is an interesting interpretation. Elbit Systems has filed a declaration of force majeure with Romania saying that the situation in Gaza had affected its ability to “Fulfil its contractual obligations”. Does that not imply that Elbit Systems will not export the goods to Romania?”

“We do not have a system in the UK of post-shipment checks. How will we monitor that they will eventually end up in Romania?”

“Finally, I have a separate question about controls on sharing academic research and technical knowledge. I wonder if there are any further plans to examine those controls.”

“My understanding is that re-export requires the goods to end up in the place that they are intended for, and it is simply not good enough for them to just not be used by the IDF. They ought to be subject to the end user requirement. You previously told us that it would be a breach—”

“If we find in future that this was not a delay and that the drone parts have indeed been diverted to the IDF, will there then be a refusal of future licence applications from those exporters?”

“On the point about post-shipment checks, I appreciate that the United States system is quite large and significant. The last report of the Committees on Arms Export Controls suggested that the UK should implement a pilot of post-shipment checks. What consideration is being given to even piloting such a system?”

“Minister Bryant, Campaign Against Arms Trade, an NGO you will be familiar with, says that UK exports of drone parts to Israel have not been re-exported to Romania from Israel. That was a requirement of the UK export licence. Will the items listed in CAAT’s letter be re-exported to Romania?”

“At the NATO summit in Ankara last week, Trump threatened that Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark”. How has this acquisitiveness from the Trump administration in relation to the territory of a NATO ally affected the US/UK relationship?”

“Foreign Secretary, when you were before the Committee last December, we talked a little about the US national security strategy that had come out one month prior. You know well that the United States talks in that document about helping Europe by, “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European n…”

“Part of that effort to pull NATO together might, I suppose, have explained the extension of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements. Last June, the Government announced the UK, alongside seven other NATO countries, would acquire dual-capable aircraft, capable of carrying nuclear weapons. We heard last week in the answer to…”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Alec. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Isle of Wight West (Richard Quigley) for securing this debate on our coastal communities, which are so often forgotten. Those of us who represent coastal communities like Honiton and Sidmouth can sometimes forget that we rep…”

“Foreign Secretary, a moment ago you made a distinction between hybrid threats and physical, tangible threats. I am not asking you to speak about classified information that you cannot speak about, but I am curious about the Prime Minister, because on 5 June, he said that “it is our intelligence assessment, and the asse…”

“Natural England proposed that overall livestock grazing limits should be reduced to reduce overgrazing, and it was not specific to ponies—it was about overgrazing by sheep and cattle. Ponies can help to graze invasive grasses and promote biodiversity. The people who developed the Change.org petition were doing the righ…”

“The shadow Minister is exactly right. Of course, those people’s parents fought in the first world war. They were a generation who really did not want to meet war, but war came to them none the less. Clausewitz, the philosopher of war, talked about government, military and people being the remarkable trinity concerned w…”

“Forgive me, but I understood that Grangemouth was a crude oil refinery. We need only look to Eurasia—we need only look at what has been happening in Ukraine and Russia—to see that war comes to those who do not really want it to come to them at all. Yes, that is a failure of diplomacy, but it is also a failure of prepar…”

“I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin) for making this debate happen. I have been to see his bookshelves and, trust me, the books on strategy and military affairs in his library are well thumbed. He knows what he is talking about, and he has done well to corral us all into talking …”