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Lord Coaker (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 September 2026

Debate

Defence Spending

Contribution

I will take the last point first on what the Government are doing now. The noble Lord will know that, in the DIP, there was £11 billion-worth of investment announced, to be invested in six munition sites, to give us the stockpiles that we need. What we cannot do is magic them out of nowhere, but we are investing to deliver the very thing that the noble Lord rightly suggested. He will also see that in the DIP there is a whole range of ways in which we are building ships. To be fair, as I said, everyone wants to defend our country, and the previous Government started to rebuild and to replace the ship capacity that we need; we see examples of that on the Clyde. We are also looking at different ways to do the same thing through an increased use of drones and using a mother ship concept.

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