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Ministry of Defence

I am astonished by the Minister’s last comment. He is saying that because people are taking risks as civilian contractors, it is all right for them to do a bit a malfeasance. I do not think that it is, so he should reflect on his comments. The Minister makes a point about reconstruction. Let me remind him of the point in the New Statesman about hospital supplies that I cited in my speech. Iraqis do not need to be involved in the production of medical equipment and basic supplies for hospitals. We could have just shipped them in, flight after flight, on our Hercules airplanes. We could have sent mass supplies to equip the hospitals properly. Why have we not done so?