Strategic Defence Review - 2nd June 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Strategic Defence Review.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-06-02/debates/AA250D32-663A-462C-98F4-64DD8DF389A7/StrategicDefenceReview

Ellie Chowns (Green)

This Government seem to have confused security with spending more on weapons, but warheads do not buy a safer world—they make it more dangerous. Instead of wasting £15 billion on nuclear warheads—weapons that must never be used and that should be as unacceptable as biological and chemical weapons—at a taxpayer subsidy of more than £1 million per job created, why not instead spend that money on real security that must involve defence and diplomacy and development? Real security means decent housing and public services, tackling the challenges of the climate crisis and pandemic-preparedness because—

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