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Serious Fraud Office Investigation

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

454 c1119-28 

Session

2006-07

Department

Solicitor General

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1128 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may take the view that it would have been preferable to be able to arrive at the ...

Lord Cormack | 454 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Does the Solicitor-General accept, from one who does not for a minute impugn the integrity of the At...

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Speaker | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has had his two questions.

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1127 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman claims that there was substantial progress, but I am not sure how he justifies th...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 454 c1127 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear and incontrovertible that the representations—indeed, the pressure—of a foreign Gove...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1127-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may have his view. It is entirely a matter for other Governments whether they exp...

Peter Bone | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Has the Solicitor-General had an opportunity to estimate the costs of the investigation to the publi...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) A serious decision has been taken by the director of the Serious Fraud Office and the Attorney-Gener...

Norman Lamb | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Is this not a sad day for the cause of good governance and the rule of law, coming as it does just t...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I have not yet had the opportunity to estimate the costs, but I will ask the director of the Serious...

Alex Salmond | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Is the Solicitor-General aware that news of his statement sent a frisson of excitement through the f...

John Pugh | 454 c1125 (Link to this contribution) Will the Government now support the Public Accounts Committee or its Chairman having access to the N...

David Gauke | 454 c1125 (Link to this contribution) The Solicitor-General has told the House that the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the Defe...

Geoffrey Cox | 454 c1125-6 (Link to this contribution) Every one of the considerations on which the statement is based would have been apparent to a compet...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the intemperate way in which the hon. and learned Gentleman chooses to present his q...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1124 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. When serious allegations are made, it is right that the pros...

Bernard Jenkin | 454 c1124 (Link to this contribution) I am bound to say that I regard this whole episode as a sorry one. The Serious Fraud Office has been...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1124 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) is quite right to say that it was proper for the Serious ...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman both for the way in which he has responded to the statement and for his c...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I object to the tone of the hon. Gentleman’s comments in relation to the implication that the direct...

Michael Jack | 454 c1123 (Link to this contribution) It was right that the Serious Fraud Office commenced the investigation and I am grateful to the Soli...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) May I first express my thanks to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make a statement on thi...

Dominic Grieve | 454 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the Solicitor-General for the promptness with which the statement has been made to Pa...

Speaker | 454 c1124 (Link to this contribution) Order. With all respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he has already asked two questions, and other h...

Simon Hughes | 454 c1122-3 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats are grateful for the early statement following the director’s announcement, bu...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1125 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should properly take the matter up with the appropriate House authorities, rather...

Mike O'Brien | 454 c1125 (Link to this contribution) Let me say that the issue was national security—our national security—and our foreign policy objecti...

Subjects

Criminal investigation Corruption Arms trade Serious Fraud Office Saudi Arabia Project Al Yamamah BAE Systems

Link

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