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Ministerial statement on Monday, 26 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Browne of Ladyton.

Afghanistan (Force Levels)

Statement on force levels in Afghanistan.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c619-35 
Session
2006-07
Department
Ministry of Defence
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House of Commons chamber
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Afghanistan Roulement
Thursday, 19 July 2007
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House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) This question has been asked before, and I think that the answer was implied in the information that...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c633 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that recruitment is increasing. There are two challenges to sustaining the numb...
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Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c633 (Link to this contribution) This is not a military occupation. It is support for a Government who have been properly elected on ...
Crispin Blunt | 457 c633 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that the mission was in our national interest, but that is no more or le...
Lindsay Hoyle | 457 c633 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. Friend has considered requests to deploy the Gibraltar regiment to Af...
Robert Smith | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) In answer to an earlier question, the Secretary of State said that although the request was for two ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot give my hon. Friend answers to such specific questions, but I will write t...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c632 (Link to this contribution) Most challenges offer opportunities, as well as show weaknesses, and I think that over time NATO wil...
William Cash | 457 c632 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State concede that article 5 of the north Atlantic treaty is based on mutual r...
Gordon Prentice | 457 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) We heard about endemic corruption in the police earlier, but may I ask about the Afghan army, becaus...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c630 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware of the need to balance the two objectives. The fact of the matter is that they are n...
Lord Maples | 457 c630 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of our problems in Afghanistan the fact that we have conflicting objectives? We seek to s...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c630 (Link to this contribution) Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Romania and the United States have both the ca...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 457 c632 (Link to this contribution) We entered Afghanistan because it was in the British interest to do so, and I commend my right hon. ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman has not visited the border, I am sure that he can contemplate what it looks li...
Adam Price | 457 c631 (Link to this contribution) Given the reported incursion of some 700 Taliban fighters over the Pakistan border to attack the Kaj...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that question. I always try, particularly when speaking to those who work...
Jim Sheridan | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend understand the frustration and anger of British defence workers who have n...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman’s son, although I do not know him perso...
Ian Taylor | 457 c634 (Link to this contribution) Some elements of the battle group that the right hon. Gentleman announced today were to be deployed ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c619-21 (Link to this contribution) On 1 February, I announced the forthcoming rotation of our troops in Afghanistan. At that time, I un...
Nick Harvey | 457 c625 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. I begin by reaffirming the Liberal Democrats’ supp...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c624 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may well have been present at some of the conversations that I have had with so...
Lord Touhig | 457 c624 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend has considered this decision carefully, knowing the pressure tha...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I, too, regret that the information leaked as it did. The hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) knows...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c625 (Link to this contribution) As I said in answer to a question during Defence questions, we continue to press our allies, as appr...
Michael Meacher | 457 c625 (Link to this contribution) Apart from reinforcing troop numbers against the expected Taliban spring offensive in Helmand and ar...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c626 (Link to this contribution) The mission objective has not changed. It—combined with our exit strategy, which, as my right hon. F...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 457 c626 (Link to this contribution) I support today’s announcement, but we have been asked to provide two battle groups and we have said...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c626 (Link to this contribution) In my statement to the House, I said, advisedly—I cannot find the exact words—that the deployment wa...
David Crausby | 457 c626 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend never ask himself the question: what is the point of a NATO of that number...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c627 (Link to this contribution) I ask myself all sorts of questions but I cannot, with hand on heart, say that I have asked myself t...
Peter Tapsell | 457 c627 (Link to this contribution) To ask a question that is repeatedly asked each time we get an admission of mission creep, why are w...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c627 (Link to this contribution) NATO has never before been posed a challenge of this nature. Progress is being made. It is not being...
David S Borrow | 457 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that those nations who are prepared to put their servicemen and women in the most dan...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts his finger on an important point. The Taliban seek to do two things. The first i...
Doug Henderson | 457 c629 (Link to this contribution) I think that my right hon. Friend will have the full support of the House in pressing our allies in ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c629 (Link to this contribution) If I did not think that we could make progress in increasing security to allow the complementary ele...
Bob Russell | 457 c629 (Link to this contribution) Today’s statement confirms the point that I put to the Prime Minister back in October: the majority ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c629 (Link to this contribution) Where countries are unable, as some of them are, to provide troops that can engage in the sort of ta...
Brian Jenkins | 457 c630 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Secretary of State to clarify part of his statement? Speaking just among ourselves, wh...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c630 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to identify those gaps, but, of course, he will appreciate that there is...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 457 c629 (Link to this contribution) Provincial reconstruction teams remain the cornerstone of our progress in Afghanistan. In today’s st...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c631 (Link to this contribution) There is a problem with the retention of soldiers in the Afghan army and a challenge regarding equip...
Linda Gilroy | 457 c632 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend will join me in recognising the role that thousands of serviceme...
Liam Fox | 457 c621-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Secretary of State for his statement and prior notice of it. Yet again, it ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has the merit of consistency and he speaks regularly on this issue and challenges...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 457 c632 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct in his shortened definition of article 5, in terms of mutua...
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Armed forces Deployment Peacekeeping operations Security Afghanistan NATO Taliban
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