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Debate on the Address

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

687 c112-230 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for International Development

Ministry of Defence

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Procedure

Addresses to the Crown

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Jay of Ewelme | 687 c153-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is 25 years almost to the day since, as a young diplomat, I sat in the officials’ Box i...

Lord Browne of Belmont | 687 c144-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks for the kindness and friendship shown to me in my first tw...

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Lord Leach of Fairford | 687 c140-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Howell of Guildford for his generous introductory remarks and...

Lord Patel of Bradford | 687 c135-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased and honoured to make my maiden speech today. I thank your Lordships for the k...

Lord Drayson | 687 c113-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is right that we consider foreign affairs, defence and international development in the...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 687 c122-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is good to follow the thoughtful speech by the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, mu...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 687 c117-22 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for that interesting analysis of ““a turbulent international environm...

Bishop of Winchester | 687 c161-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord’s wise and experienced speech. Granted that a day is...

Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 687 c163-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to talk about Iraq and Iran and the relationship between the two countries. Before ...

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 687 c166-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus i...

Lord Jopling | 687 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I share the anger of my noble friends Lord King and Lord Hurd over the situation confronti...

Lord Ahmed | 687 c155-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Jay of Ewelme. I congratulate him on his tho...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 687 c156-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is as sombre an atmosphere as I can remember in any defence or foreign affairs debate...

Lord Alderdice | 687 c159-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in this somewhat sombre debate there is a great richness of contributors and a considerabl...

Lord Hurd of Westwell | 687 c148-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have hesitated a little, because what I want to say about Iraq runs against the conventi...

Lord Chidgey | 687 c150-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister will be aware that the Government’s White Paper, Active Diplomacy for a Chang...

Lord Anderson of Swansea | 687 c146-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is my pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Belmont, and congratulate him w...

Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 687 c142-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to welcome and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Leach of Fairf...

Baroness Jay of Paddington | 687 c137-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of the whole House, I warmly congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel of Bradford...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 687 c133-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have listened to two extremely important and significant speeches, from the noble Lord,...

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 687 c128-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the gracious Speech touched upon a number of foreign policy issues, and rightly put the Go...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 687 c131-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Symons. It makes me feel enormously co...

Bishop of Chelmsford | 687 c126-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the House will not consider it an abuse if I use the few minutes allotted to m...

Lord Dahrendorf | 687 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I often agree with the noble Lord, Lord Gilbert; I certainly agree with his praise of the ...

Lord Luke | 687 c207-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it will come as no surprise that I would like to press the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord ...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 687 c201-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the gracious Speech, reference was made to North Korea and Darfur. On Thursday last, th...

Lord Gilbert | 687 c203-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to place on record that I consider that, in many ways, my noble friend Lord Drayson...

Lord Hylton | 687 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry that I cannot take part in the defence procurement debate. However, I agree str...

Baroness Rawlings | 687 c199-201 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I echo the remarks of my noble friend Lord Howell in welcoming our maiden speakers. With s...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 687 c196-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Selsdon, referred to this debate being marked by the contributions of...

Earl of Sandwich | 687 c193-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the words unusually missing from this gracious Speechare ““poverty reduction”” and ““inter...

Lord Selsdon | 687 c191-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is extraordinarily exciting to be playing cricket with the great, the good and the gall...

Lord Inge | 687 c177-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not sure that I will be a beacon of hope. May I start by saying how much I agree with...

Lord Patten | 687 c179-82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in declaring my interest, perhaps I may also say how glad I am to follow the noble and gal...

Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank | 687 c182-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the third noble and gallant Lord and former Chief of the Defence Staff—and the junior o...

Lord Lyell | 687 c184-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we were given a small hint today that debate on the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq migh...

Lord St John of Bletso | 687 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when speaking in the foreign affairs debate following Her Majesty's gracious Speech in the...

Lord Clement-Jones | 687 c187-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord St John, who, as he said, was a memb...

Lord Bramall | 687 c171-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many noble Lords have so ably made the point, with which I agree, that for the past five y...

Baroness Northover | 687 c169-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Queen’s Speech mentioned working for peace in the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan; t...

Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 687 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall take a slightly different approach from the one taken by almost anyone else this e...

Baroness Hooper | 687 c173-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, inevitably in a Queen's Speech the focus is on forward plans for legislation. It is unusua...

Lord Astor of Hever | 687 c215-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend Lord King started his excellent speech by drawing attention to the sombre ...

Lord Triesman | 687 c219-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, today’s debate illustrates most vividly the extraordinary complexity and interdependence o...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 687 c230 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Warner, I beg to move that the debate be adjourned until...

Lord Cotter | 687 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to be given this opportunity to raise a matter that is of great urgency and ...

Lord Garden | 687 c211-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an excellent debate with a number of common themes: the centrality of the Mi...

Lord Owen | 687 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the debate on 12 July I expressed my anger at the mess that we have allowed ourselves t...

Subjects

Defence Climate change Developing countries Development aid Africa Iraq Foreign policy Nuclear weapons Peacekeeping operations Procurement Proliferation Terrorism United Nations Afghanistan NATO Israel Islam Palestine Iran Middle East Reconstruction Peace negotiations EU defence policy North Korea al Qaeda Taliban

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