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Libya

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

528 c779 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Deposited Paper DEP2011-0902
Friday, 27 May 2011
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-0903
Friday, 27 May 2011
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House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Nick Harvey | 528 c779 (Link to this contribution) Pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973, NATO-led air strikes have been successf...

Jim Murphy | 528 c779 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State to update the House on military deployments in Liby...

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Stephen Gilbert | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) I do not see this as an escalation but rather as a proper tactical response to a changing tactical s...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 528 c782-3 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House of my interest as a member of the military stabilisation support group? Will ...

Rehman Chishti | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's statement. Will he clarify what the assessment is of the situation in south...

Nick Harvey | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of our being there is to carry out UNSCR 1973, the objective of which is to reduce the t...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 528 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that the French have publicly briefed the press that the National Security Counc...

Nick Harvey | 528 c782-3 (Link to this contribution) We already have a stabilisation unit in Benghazi preparing the ground for the post-conflict situatio...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 528 c781 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his statement. If the Apache helicopter were to be deployed, that would b...

Nick Harvey | 528 c783 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to operations on the ground and asks at what point they would cross UNSCR 1973...

Nick Harvey | 528 c784 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his initial remarks. He is absolutely right that, as my right hon. and le...

Edward Timpson | 528 c787 (Link to this contribution) What discussions has my hon. Friend had, or does he intend to have, with Arab League countries as pa...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 528 c781-2 (Link to this contribution) May I sympathise with the Minister's reluctance to permit a running commentary on operations in Liby...

Nick Harvey | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. It is certainly the case that the use of attack helicopters ...

Dennis Skinner | 528 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) Has not this intervention been subject to mission creep ever since it began, as statements to the Ho...

Nick Harvey | 528 c781 (Link to this contribution) We are very familiar with the terms of UNSCR 1973, which remains absolutely our abiding objective. I...

Nick Harvey | 528 c781 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that we are right to consider this in pursuance, as I said, of UNSCR 197...

Mike Gapes | 528 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) The House is going into recess today and will not resume until 7 June. Given that the Minister has s...

Mark Durkan | 528 c788 (Link to this contribution) In his first answer the Minister spoke of the need to increase the military pressure on the Gaddafi ...

Nick Harvey | 528 c781-2 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend: the objective and the targets would remain e...

Nick Harvey | 528 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on what the French Minister has said, but I absolutely assure the hon. Gentleman on...

Nick Harvey | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) I say again that this is simply an option that is being considered, and the detail of how exactly th...

Thomas Docherty | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister update the House as to how many countries have now sent military advisers to Libya...

Andy Slaughter | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that the more regime targets in Tripoli that are bombed and the more tactic...

Chris Bryant | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) The trouble is that if the Government's aim is not regime change, we are basically at stalemate. The...

Nick Harvey | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his supportive remarks. It is inherently true that the use of attack heli...

Ann Clwyd | 528 c783 (Link to this contribution) According to the latest statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross, there is a grow...

Amber Rudd | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) If the decision is made, will the Apache helicopters be allowed to land on Libyan soil?

Nick Harvey | 528 c779-81 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman quotes the French Minister, and my understanding is that the French have in...

Nick Harvey | 528 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) We know for a fact that Gaddafi was on the verge of an absolute bloodbath in Benghazi and that if we...

Nick Harvey | 528 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not withholding information from the House. There is no information to withhold. No decision to...

Nick Harvey | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that there are huge oil assets to the south. I can only repeat that our ...

Nick Harvey | 528 c788 (Link to this contribution) In my initial answer I was quoting the Foreign Secretary, who said, quite rightly, that we had to st...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) As I ordered the attack helicopters, I am rather disappointed to hear that no decision has been take...

Jim Murphy | 528 c779-81 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for allowing the urgent question, Mr Speaker. The Opposition have always made clear that ...

Nick Harvey | 528 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) I really cannot be expected to justify what may or may not have been said by French Ministers giving...

Nick Smith | 528 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the Minister's emphasis on saving civilian lives. Can he update us on whether the Libyan e...

Nick Harvey | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) I can indeed confirm that. There are currently Apache helicopters in the Mediterranean as part of ex...

Nick Harvey | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on having placed that order, because the Apache helicopter has p...

Graham Stringer | 528 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's reason for withholding information from the House makes no sense at all. If French he...

Stephen Phillips | 528 c786 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been clear that no decision has yet been taken to deploy ground-attack helicopter...

Nick Harvey | 528 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) We have no grounds to think so. There are undoubtedly problems with electricity and water supplies i...

John McDonnell | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) This decision, if it is made, would make a qualitative difference to the strategy, because it would ...

Nick Harvey | 528 c782 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that we are at stalemate, as I believe recent events in Misrata have demonstrated. T...

Bernard Jenkin | 528 c784 (Link to this contribution) May I assure my hon. Friend that he is entitled to plan military operations and discuss them with al...

John Baron | 528 c783 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not we deploy attack helicopters, the fact that a key NATO ally has represents, in my vie...

Nick Harvey | 528 c783 (Link to this contribution) There are certainly immense humanitarian difficulties in various parts of Libya, the most obvious ex...

David Winnick | 528 c781 (Link to this contribution) Like many others, I am very concerned about the kind of massive air raid that took place last night,...

Nick Harvey | 528 c785 (Link to this contribution) We have sent some of our own advisers and they are working with the French. We co-ordinate that betw...

Nick Harvey | 528 c787 (Link to this contribution) If any decision were to be taken to go down that route, that would be discussed with Arab countries ...

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Armed conflict International cooperation Helicopters Parliamentary scrutiny Military aircraft UN resolutions NATO Libya Military intervention

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