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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Browne of Ladyton.

Iraq and Afghanistan Update

Statement about defence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
450 c172-90 
Session
2005-06
Department
Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c190 (Link to this contribution) There are eight attack helicopters, as I have already told the House. There are eight Chinook suppor...
Tobias Ellwood | 450 c190 (Link to this contribution) On a recent visit to Lashkar Gah, it was clear that the troops were calling for more firepower, more...
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Richard Bacon | 450 c190 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Portsmouth, North (Sarah McCarthy-Fry), who is no longer in her place, asked the...
Speaker | 450 c190 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appreciate that these are important matters, but we must now move on to other business.
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 450 c188 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and in particular for the update on Afghanistan. Wil...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c188 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has quoted part of what I said. At that point, as I recollect, I was referring to...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c189 (Link to this contribution) I do not know who my hon. Friend has been talking to, but NATO and others in Afghanistan carry out r...
Angus Robertson | 450 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) With regard to the tragic loss of 12 service personnel aboard a Nimrod from RAF Kinloss, may I comme...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c190 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his recognition of the steps that were taken, but they were entirely ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c188 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has set one of a number of tests of whether reconstruction is working. In the detail ...
Patrick Mercer | 450 c189 (Link to this contribution) As long ago as February, Conservative Members warned the Government that in the event of serious res...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c189 (Link to this contribution) The nature of the force that we deployed was based on military advice given to Ministers not only by...
Paul Flynn | 450 c189 (Link to this contribution) How can we win the hearts and minds of the people in Helmand when the majority believe that we are t...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c186 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her support, and for giving me the opportunity to pay tribute to the work...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 450 c186 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement of the operational bonus. When I visited Iraq e...
Dari Taylor | 450 c187 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Will he confirm that the excellent United Kingdom...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c188 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her support. She is right to suggest that in Afghanistan the exit strateg...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 450 c187 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State join me in thanking the soldiers of 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regime...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c187 (Link to this contribution) I have no difficulty in accepting the hon. Gentleman’s invitation to pay tribute to those who have s...
Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c187 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give us an estimate of the number of soldiers and civilians—in addition ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am not in the business of making estimates of the number of people who have died, any more than I ...
Robert Smith | 450 c186 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has recognised in his statement that there have been genuine concerns about t...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) The disposition of patients in terms of their care is related to their clinical need. I am not in a ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c184 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman—[Hon. Members: ““And gallant.””] I apologise; I thank the hon. and gallan...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman should be aware that the deployment into Helmand is not increas...
Jane Kennedy | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. In view of the comments that have been made about the la...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) The simplest answer that I can give my right hon. Friend is that there are now 5 million children in...
Crispin Blunt | 450 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) Is not the truth of the matter that artillery and Apache helicopters are rather limited in their abi...
Speaker | 450 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I stop the Secretary of State? I allowed a long statement and a long response from Front ...
David Winnick | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) In view of the endless slaughter of largely innocent civilians in Iraq and the inability of the occu...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) The answer to my hon. Friend is perfectly simple. There is due to be a renewal of the United Nations...
Marquess of Lothian | 450 c185 (Link to this contribution) Given that the increasingly dangerous and bloody mission in which our brave soldiers are engaged in ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c186 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes exactly the point that I made to the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harv...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c180 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his support. By asking a question on pay, he gives me the opportuni...
Nick Harvey | 450 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) May I echo most sincerely the words of condolence to the families of those who have died in Iraq and...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c178-80 (Link to this contribution) If I were to answer all the questions the hon. Gentleman has put to me, I suspect that I would incur...
Lord Touhig | 450 c180 (Link to this contribution) May I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement this afternoon and confine my brief remarks to ju...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c183 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Woodspring also raised that issue, which is at the heart of what we are trying t...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) It is not in my gift to grant time in the House for a foreign policy debate, but the hon. Gentleman ...
Lord Beamish | 450 c183 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement today. I visited Helmand province with the Select ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c183 (Link to this contribution) That is not entirely correct. We can find partners, in the form of local contractors and other peopl...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 450 c184 (Link to this contribution) I should perhaps declare my interest as someone who may receive the operational payment. Although I ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 450 c172-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about our operations in Iraq and Afgha...
Liam Fox | 450 c176-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by associating myself and my colleagues with the Secretary of State’s condolences to th...
Andrew Murrison | 450 c188 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, the Secretary of State asserted that ““the best medical care is to be found inside...
Subjects
Armed forces Deployment Defence equipment Iraq Pay Peacekeeping operations Afghanistan NATO Reconstruction Taliban Basra ISAF Selly Oak Hospital
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