Mark Francois MP: speeches

4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress

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15 Jul 2026 · National Security · Hansard source
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The hon. Member has 59 minutes left.
15 Jul 2026 · Iran · Hansard source
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Yes. The Minister gave way to me, so I must now return the favour.
15 Jul 2026 · Iran · Hansard source
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My right hon. Friend generously refers to me. On Ajax, the Government published a written ministerial statement yesterday that had a great deal of verbiage in it, but it still did not say when Ajax would enter operational service, even though it is nine years late.
15 Jul 2026 · Iran · Hansard source
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Without asking the Minister to reveal any operationally sensitive information, for reasons that we all understand, is the Government’s position that they will not seek to use the capability of the international coalition for de-mining to clear mines from the strait unless, in effect, they have Iranian consent for de-mining?
15 Jul 2026 · Iran · Hansard source
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Yes, certainly, although I am coming towards the end of my remarks.
8 Jul 2026 · Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness · Hansard source
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The hon. Member is right on the funding—I will mention that later—but one important thing that did happen after 2014 was under what was then called Operation Orbital. We began training Ukrainian soldiers on Salisbury plain, because they knew what was coming—and, I think, perhaps so did we. We will talk about the money in a minute, but the training of Ukrainian troops in Britain did start fairly shortly after 2014.
6 Jul 2026 · Support for Veterans · Hansard source
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We have been waiting for those amendments almost as long as we have been waiting for the DIP. Where is the right hon. Member for Makerfield (Andy Burnham) on the legacy issue? Many regiments that hail from the north-west—such as the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, which has already mentioned once today, and, before it, the King’s Regiment, which traditionally recruited from both Liverpool and Manchester—did multiple tours in Northern Ireland on Op Banner. Has the Secretary of State had any indications that our likely new Prime Minister is going to do right by those former soldiers from his own region, scrap the benighted Bill, which helps Sinn Féin pursue our veterans via lawfare, and get rid of the whole nonsense altogether?

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