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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 September 2026

Debate

Armed Forces Bill

Contribution

This company is a separate legal persona, incorporated under company law, is explicitly not a Minister of the Crown and is not a government department, yet it exercises transport functions on behalf of the Department for Transport, which does fall under the scope of the covenant, as both a specified person for the DfT and as a specified matter in relation to transport. It seems to me that GBR is precisely the sort of body to which the covenant legal duty should apply.

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