Friend will have noted that the Foreign Secretary, in answer to my earlier intervention, said that he had received no representations from the Secretary of State for Defence. Will my right hon. Perhaps the serious concerns that the Chief of the Defence Staff expressed to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill were completely spontaneous. Perhaps he had not thought about such matters before, and it was the first time that they had been discussed, but somehow we all find that a tiny bit unlikely. Lady, but then I want to make progress because I know that many hon.
Members wish to speak.
Gentleman's argument, and I am in some difficulty. Lady does not understand that there is a real difference in the effect on the mind between those who frequently make instant decisions facing the prospect of disciplinary proceedings in the armed forces, or even prosecution, possibly by a domestic court, and a process that is international in character and out of the control of those who command the armed forces nationally, she should try talking to some of the officers. Indeed, she might like to talk to Admiral Boyce, just appointed by the Government as Chief of the Defence Staff, who is expressing precisely those concerns. Gentleman presses me to do so, but I am keen to make progress. Gentleman to give way.