It has taken the Falkland Islands Crisis 888 to bring the Government to their knees.

Has she noted that even President Reagan has called for a peaceful solution to the Falkland Islands Crisis, without bloodshed?

I understand that President Reagan, like most of us, would wish a peaceful solution to the Crisis in the Falkland Islands.

In the Falkland Islands Crisis the Argentine Government have violated the United Nations charter and the British position has won overwhelming endorsement from the Security Council.

Will he explain now, or certainly before the House rises for Easter, what effects he believes the present Crisis in the Falkland Islands will have on the economy?

An even stronger reason for the House to watch and be kept informed of every development in the Present Falkland Islands Crisis is that there is no confidence in the present Administration's ability in this matter.

Pursuant to that question, I hope that my right hon. Friend will not allow the immediacy of the Falkland Islands Crisis, important though it is, to draw time and attention away from the successful prosecution of Government policy in matters closer to home, perhaps rather less dramatic but equally important.

We shall continue to do what we have done ever since the difficulties and the Crisis in the Falkland Islands arose.

I hope that as a result of the Falklands Islands Crisis there will be a complete overhaul of the whole Government machine of arms sales.

Will my right hon. Friend provide an early opportunity to debate the reporting by the media of the Falkland Islands Crisis?

When they tabled the amendment, they must have known that the Falkland Islands Crisis was upon us and that to produce such an amendment for debate today would be to put almost every possible obstacle in its path.

I repeat my right hon. Friend's point that when the Falkland Islands Crisis is over we shall consider whether any adjustments are needed within the general strategy, but the general strategy set out in Cmnd.

When the Falkland Islands Crisis is over we shall naturally consider whether any adjustments are needed within the general strategy.

Will the Secretary of State reconsider the actions that have been taken and those that are in train in relation to the dockyards, in view of their excellent performance during the Falkland Islands Crisis?

How on earth does the right hon. Gentleman expect to inspire any confidence in the future defence policy of the country when he is refusing, at this stage, to admit, even in the light of the Falkland Islands Crisis, that he got any of his priorities wrong, when the whole country realises that we would not be in the present mess if he had got them right?

In the middle of a national Crisis in the Falkland Islands, with heavy dependence on the Navy and support ships, is it not preposterous to reduce support for our shipbuilding industry?

The Falklands Islands Crisis, of course, dominates our thoughts and it may be that the House will have to be recalled before next Tuesday.

Will my right hon. Friend think carefully before allowing a fifth debate next week on the Falkland Islands Crisis?

If that method is pursued, it will lead to a stable and a more enduring solution to the Falkland Islands Crisis.

The Falkland Islands Crisis at long last has brought home the lesson that conventional arms are essential forthe quelling of localised aggression.

Not even the Falkland Islands Crisis can drown within our press the fact that 4 million people - rising to 5 million in 1982–83 - will be unemployed, that our standard of living continues to deteriorate and that there have been more riots in Toxteth during the past week as a consequence of the Government's failures on several social and economic fronts.

The Falkland Islands Crisis has concentrated our minds wonderfully on the importance of the South Atlantic and the Antarctic regions, which we have to our shame neglected in the past.

As you may know, Mr. Speaker, because you sent me away to it, I had to watch most of the developing Crisis in the Falkland Islands from Easter until this morning from abroad.

When I first spoke to the House as Foreign Secretary I said that I would approach my task over the Falkland Islands Crisis in a spirit of determination and realism.

It is also generally agreed that when the Falkland Islands Crisis is over a very full inquiry will be necessary.

As the Minister will know, many of us believe that the Crisis in the Falkland Islands arose because the Government gave a false signal to the Argentine Government.

Lord Carrington's visit was obviously overshadowed by the subsequent Crisis in the Falkland Islands, but is my right hon. Friend aware that the visit was well received in Israel and did a great deal to improve relations?

I thank the Leader of the House for the arrangements that he has made for reporting to the House on the Falkland Islands Crisis and for dealing with the problem in the House on Tuesday night.

Some think that the Government have massaged the figures to mask the effect of the Falkland Islands Crisis.

9, for the purpose of discussing a matter of definite and urgent public importance, namelythe need for Foreign Office Ministers to clarify the attitude of our European partners towards the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Of all the criticisms of the Bill that have been made, the one that is most unacceptable is that we should not proceed because of the Falkland Islands Crisis.

I wish to comment in passing on one other aspect of the reporting of the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Mr. Arthur Lewis asked the Prime Minister on what dates her invitations to certain Privy Councillors to discuss the Falkland Islands Crisis were made to those concerned.

The matter is urgent, because the voice of the Foreign Office - the same Foreign Office that brought us to the Crisis in the Falkland Islands - is one of sell-out and equivocation.

Does the Prime Minister agree that one feature of the Falkland Island Crisis is the clear demonstration of how quickly and effectively the Government can act when they have the political will to do so?

During her testing day, will my right hon. Friend draw strength from the fact that those most directly concerned in the Falkland Islands Crisis - the men of the Armed Forces and their families - fully understand the issues and the risks involved and are resolute in their will to perform the roles expected of them?

What is at stake in the Falkland Islands Crisis transcends the immediate issues of the Falkland Islanders and our own stake in the South Atlantic.

The Falkland Islands Crisis or war is a delicate and dangerous subject.

I devoutly hope that the Prime Minister will be as strong and firm with our EEC partners as she has been over the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Is not the first lesson to be drawn from the Falkland Islands Crisis that we must have a nuclear deterrent of our own now and in the future, and that Trident is the best instrument for that?

My hon. Friend will be aware of the considerable importance that was attached to Gibraltar during the time of the conversion of various vessels for the Falkland Islands Crisis?

Since the Falkland Islands Crisis began, the Government have welcomed the positive contribution that Parliament has made in its debates and have recognised the importance of keeping the House informed.

In the past few weeks, right hon. and hon. Members have been expressing grateful thanks to Australia, New Zealand and Canada for supporting, United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Even though the House, quite naturally, has been primarily concerned with the Crisis in the Falkland Islands, I do not believe that the Government have responded sufficiently to our concern about the dangers that are arising in British Rail as a result of the proposed closure of the railway workshops and other developments on the railways.

British participation in the World Cup has been aired in this place and outside since the Falkland Islands Crisis began many miles from this place and since the emergency debate that took place on 3 April, when the subject was raised, perhaps somewhat unwittingly, by my hon. Friend the Member for Surbiton (Sir N. Fisher).

5 am If that confidence had been shown during our debates on the Falkland Islands Crisis, perhaps we should have been able to get through our business a little quicker than we did on the five or six occasions that we considered that matter.

Two weeks ago, in his address as the new president of the General Council of British Shipping, Mr. M. A. Nicolson said:The whole Crisis of the Falkland Islands has illustrated, as nothing else has done since the Second World War, the vital importance of our merchant navy as the fourth arm of defence.

The House has this week considered not only the Falkland Islands Crisis, but many hon. Members, myself included, have spent two nights considering the complexities of the Northern Ireland Bill.

The Falkland Islands Crisis, by reminding us of the importance of a strong Merchant Navy, has, in the words of last Sunday's edition of The Observer,thrown the industry a life-line.

Mr. Critchley asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will institute an inquiry into the communication of information by the Ministry of Defence with regard to the Falkland Islands Crisis.

to inquire into the handling of information during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

It is appropriate that I should say a few words about the Falkland Islands Crisis, because I am one of the few hon. Members who have not commented on it so far.

If the Government show the will and the Prime Minister puts her personal determination behind it, as she did in the Falkland Islands Crisis, the nation will respond, and it will be seen as a real breakthrough that no previous Government have managed to achieve.

The greatest lacuna in international law is its lack of enforceability, as has been demonstrated again by the Falkland Islands Crisis and the complete impotence of the United Nations to implement Security Council resolution 502 which demanded an immediate withdrawal of Argentinian troops.

We are of course most grateful for the humanitarian assistance which Uruguay has given during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Above all, the Falkland Islands Crisis has proved conclusively that last year the Secretary of State adopted a biodegradable defence programme.

The Prime Minister: I am sure that everyone is extremely grateful for the excellent services provided by the whole of the Merchant Marine during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

I am sure that everyone is extremely grateful for the excellent services provided by the whole of the Merchant Marine during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

The Falkland Islands Crisis teaches us several important lessons that we shall no doubt examine more closely in the debate in the autumn or winter.

Long before the Falkland Islands Crisis, that same American admiral went on exercises with HMs "Invincible" and said that it was an exceptionally good ship and the American navy would like to have one like it.

The Government's response to the pressure on resources has been justified by the Falkland Islands Crisis.

It is a pity, therefore, that the period that is supposed to be under review by the House tonight does not strictly include the Falkland Islands Crisis, when the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament backed us immediately and wholeheartedly.

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Portsmouth-Gosport areaproved of unique value as a one-stop shop for the Royal Navy during the Falkland Islands Crisis?

Mr. Viggers asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he is now able to make a statement on the future of the search and rescue helicopter flight which was temporarily moved from Lee-on-Solent to Portland during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

behind what the Government did during the Falkland Islands Crisis.

I often regret that I did not continue with that ambition because, had I done so, I would have seen and listened to the great debates on the Suez and on the Falkland Islands Crisis.

There has been no answer to the charge that the Nimrods could not have operated so quickly out of Ascension Island unless there had been careful preparation for such an eventuality long before 31 March, which the House will remember is the date on which, as the Prime Minister told us from the Dispatch Box on 26 October, the Falkland Islands Crisis came out of the blue.

May I remind the House that the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) throughout the whole of the Falklands Islands Crisis - we have to consider this point in the light of his remarks today - consistently opposed in the House the despatch of the task force in defence of that principle.

When it came to the Falkland Islands Crisis, the Gulf war or dealing with the IRA, or - to use her own words - "the enemy within", she knew what she was doing.