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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 19 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Meg Munn. The answering member was Keith Simpson.

Zimbabwe

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on Zimbabwe.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
463 c477-535 
Session
2006-07
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 463 c509 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend recall that the right hon. Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartne...
Malcolm Rifkind | 463 c509 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some powerful speeches today, but I am sad to say that I must begin by questioning whe...
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Malcolm Rifkind | 463 c509-13 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend. There is a process not just of putting pressure on Mugabe, bu...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c513-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir M...
John Bercow | 463 c517 (Link to this contribution) In addition to the escalating AIDS epidemic, millions of women face problems in gaining access to sa...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend draws a critical statistic to the House’s attention. I pay tribute to that o...
James Duddridge | 463 c519-22 (Link to this contribution) One always hesitates before rising to follow an excellent speech by a senior colleague such as my ho...
James Duddridge | 463 c522 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend indicates from a sedentary position that the Government can revoke the knighthood. In...
Lord Benyon | 463 c522-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend, East (James Du...
John Bercow | 463 c495 (Link to this contribution) I had a similar opportunity to visit in February 2004. I take the opportunity to invite the hon. Lad...
Chris Mullin | 463 c507-9 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I hope that Mugabe will not be invited, but I dare to contemplate the possibility that...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c498-501 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. Even though the Zimbabwe first team is not coming here again soon, we could send...
John Barrett | 463 c501-5 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) for her eloquent contribution ...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c495-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that David Banks is the last person who would want to be thanked, but I know that he will ...
Lord Benyon | 463 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) I have huge regard for the hon. Lady and her brave efforts on behalf of Zimbabwe. Does she agree tha...
Chris Mullin | 463 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I wish to pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) for doing so much...
Meg Munn | 463 c507 (Link to this contribution) The invitations have not been issued yet.
Baroness Hoey | 463 c505 (Link to this contribution) I should remind the hon. Gentleman that political parties in this country have split and broken up a...
John Barrett | 463 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valid point. However, the problems for political parties in Zimbabwe are so hu...
Lord Benyon | 463 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. During my entire life, I will probably meet only four or five people like Pius N...
John Bercow | 463 c525 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, many church figures in Zimbabwe have been bought off. Does my hon. Friend agree that when the...
Gareth Thomas | 463 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) As I have said to my hon. Friend, there is no question but that the politicisation of food aid is ta...
Gareth Thomas | 463 c531-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) in responding to this ro...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c533 (Link to this contribution) I accept the premise of my hon. Friend’s remarks. However, although the NGOs may take responsibility...
Gerald Howarth | 463 c482 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned the Government’s aid programme. May I declare an interest? I am the unremuner...
Meg Munn | 463 c482 (Link to this contribution) We take our duty of care and responsibility for British nationals in Zimbabwe very seriously. We pro...
Roger Gale | 463 c482 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has referred to ex-pat United Kingdom citizens. There is a significant white population...
Meg Munn | 463 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman says about plans to support people from Zimbabwe; there are ...
James Duddridge | 463 c480 (Link to this contribution) What representations has the Minister received in relation to the Southern African Development Commu...
Meg Munn | 463 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall refer shortly to the role of SADC. Zimbabwe’s neighbours are already feeling the negative ...
Meg Munn | 463 c483 (Link to this contribution) I find it hard to understand why anyone would want to go and play cricket in Zimbabwe. There are cur...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c483 (Link to this contribution) Is it the position of Her Majesty’s Government to support Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s de...
Sally Keeble | 463 c483 (Link to this contribution) What discussions are the Government having with China about what it is doing in Zimbabwe—its financi...
Meg Munn | 463 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) That is not the message that should go out. The issue is a matter of great concern. The former Leade...
Tony Baldry | 463 c478 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to be discourteous to the Minister, but those of us who regularly attend debates on Af...
Meg Munn | 463 c477 (Link to this contribution) I do not know exactly what my right hon. Friend is doing at this precise moment, though I know that ...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c477 (Link to this contribution) I share the views expressed by the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey). Does not the Minister agree...
Meg Munn | 463 c477 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and his opposite number fully inte...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c477 (Link to this contribution) I would like the Minister to clarify exactly what the Foreign Secretary is doing. I know that he has...
John Bercow | 463 c480 (Link to this contribution) Given that the president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, Beatrice Mtetwa, an extremely distinguished...
Meg Munn | 463 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend is saying, and accept the reasons behind it. My right hon. Friend t...
Meg Munn | 463 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand entirely that many Members know a great deal about the situation and have spent a lot o...
Keith Simpson | 463 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) As usual, my hon. Friend states delicately what a number of colleagues have felt and expressed. Alth...
Tony Baldry | 463 c488 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend tell me one thing that the Minister said that we should welcome? Has not the Hous...
Keith Simpson | 463 c488 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by welcoming the Minister to her first debate at the Dispatch Box? She was generous in g...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c495 (Link to this contribution) I share other Members’ concern about the absence of the Foreign Secretary. Given the amount of notic...
Keith Simpson | 463 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) As usual, my hon. Friend speaks with great passion on this. Given what is going on in Zimbabwe—the a...
John Bercow | 463 c494 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend not also concerned about the reckless deportation under the auspices of the Home O...
Keith Simpson | 463 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I read the report to which he refers, which was robust. It ...
Keith Simpson | 463 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) I would hope that any British Government would look with a great deal of favour on those people. If ...
Roger Gale | 463 c489 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend include in that responsibility a responsibility for former colonials and Zimbab...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) What about the 1983 Matabeleland massacre?
Meg Munn | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how to respond, as I think that I was being damned with faint praise by the hon. Gentl...
Meg Munn | 463 c488 (Link to this contribution) I give way for the final time to the hon. Gentleman who is so light on his feet.
John Bercow | 463 c488 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful, and I am sorry to press this point but it is important. Gideon Gono is both...
Meg Munn | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to say that problems did not arise, but the situation in Zimbabwe at the outset of Mr. Mu...
Meg Munn | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to bow to my hon. Friend’s greater knowledge, although I was referring to the collec...
Chris Mullin | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will assist my hon. Friend the Minister if I suggest that she need not bow too deeply...
Nicholas Winterton | 463 c487 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the Minister has faced huge difficulties in coming to the Dispatch Box to debate a...
Meg Munn | 463 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand that we are seeking to do something about that. If the hon. Gentleman will give me a fe...
John Bercow | 463 c485 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. All she needed to say on the summit was that if Mugabe does att...
Meg Munn | 463 c485 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Buckingham.
Meg Munn | 463 c485 (Link to this contribution) May I make a little more progress? I know that I told the hon. Gentleman to be quicker on his feet, ...
Meg Munn | 463 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned £33 million, but I think that I said £3.3 million. I will clarify that ...
Gerald Howarth | 463 c486 (Link to this contribution) The whole House is grateful to the Minister for being so generous in giving way, and we recognise th...
Meg Munn | 463 c486 (Link to this contribution) I hope to clarify that point later for the hon. Gentleman, but my understanding is that other EU mem...
James Duddridge | 463 c486 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the governor is not welcome in the UK. For the sake of clarity, can she tell ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, but I must tell her that she has not answered the ques...
Meg Munn | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) I had intended to give way to the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), but the right hon. and l...
Baroness Hoey | 463 c483 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that my hon. Friend responded to an earlier Opposition question that I would also lik...
Meg Munn | 463 c483 (Link to this contribution) There are always many rumours that China and other states are providing loans or support to Zimbabwe...
Malcolm Rifkind | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is not being particularly helpful on this matter. On 15 July, The Sunday Times reported...
Meg Munn | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) The meeting is planned for later in the year and we have made our position clear on this. We are in ...
Meg Munn | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand why Members are asking such questions, but what I can say is that we are worki...
Meg Munn | 463 c484 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention on this issue.
Gareth Thomas | 463 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I recognise and understand the profound concern about what might and might not happen in ...
Meg Munn | 463 c480 (Link to this contribution) I understand entirely the hon. Gentleman’s point. If he will bear with me, I said at the outset that...
Lord Benyon | 463 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that the outgoing American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, has mad...
Meg Munn | 463 c488 (Link to this contribution) I will try and be robust in response. Gideon Gono is not welcome in the UK. He does not intend to tr...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 463 c526-30 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to wind up in this important debate. I entirely agree with my right hon. and learned ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 463 c534 (Link to this contribution) With great respect, the Government need to be clear on the negotiating stance that they are going to...
Sally Keeble | 463 c479 (Link to this contribution) I set up an organisation, in which the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) is also involved, wh...
Subjects
Corruption Development aid Democracy Human rights HIV/AIDS Inflation Foreign relations Poverty Violence Famine Zimbabwe Civil disorder Oppression Mugabe, Robert
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