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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 3 March 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Corbyn. The answering member was Baroness Merron.

Latin America

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on UK relations with Latin America.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
488 c183-206WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
David Lidington | 488 c201-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on securing this debate. He has ...
Jo Swinson | 488 c201WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I have to finish in order to give other speakers the chance to sum up for their part...
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Jo Swinson | 488 c200-1WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed; the hon. Gentleman raises a very important point. The UN special rapporteur on the right to ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c200WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may know that one of the problems is that the growth in maize-based ethanol has forced...
Jo Swinson | 488 c199-200WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. It is interesting to hear what he says about Guate...
David Leslie Taylor | 488 c199WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady include in her reference to human rights the position of women in Latin America,...
Jo Swinson | 488 c198-9WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on securing the debate. On...
Colin Burgon | 488 c197-8WH (Link to this contribution) I will not respond to that. There are some other things that I need to put on the record. For ordin...
Baroness Merron | 488 c205-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to draw my hon. Friend's comments to the attention of the Home Office, but there was cons...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 488 c204WH (Link to this contribution) Of the 20 generally recognised Latin American countries, the UK runs a balance-of-trade deficit with...
Baroness Merron | 488 c204WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on securing today's de...
Diane Abbott | 488 c205WH (Link to this contribution) Before we leave the subject of Bolivia, will the Minister pass on to Home Office Ministers the conce...
Baroness Merron | 488 c204-5WH (Link to this contribution) I would certainly agree. My visit to Brazil showed me those great opportunities to which hon. Member...
David Lidington | 488 c203-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a strong point, and I hope that if the Minister does not have time to reply in ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 488 c203WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, as he has so little time. Does he not agree that the...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) That is what I learned in Shropshire.
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) The British Government. I have just had a very useful conversation with our esteemed Minister, who d...
David Leslie Taylor | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be aware that in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Latin American country pro...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) This will totally shock my hon. Friend, but I have good news to bring him on behalf of the Governmen...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did make those two separate points.
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) I made two separate points in response to a very gentle intervention from the hon. Gentleman, who is...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) And Adams' grammar school is an excellent grammar school—and partly fee-paying, just for those peopl...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c186WH (Link to this contribution) Sadly, the Minister declined to receive them. Even though they are written in English, I am sure tha...
Jeff Ennis | 488 c187WH (Link to this contribution) I have yet more good news for the Government. Does my hon. Friend agree that the delegation's visit,...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c190WH (Link to this contribution) I agree that the only way to resolve the issues is to accept the need for justice, dialogue and demo...
Diane Abbott | 488 c190WH (Link to this contribution) On the tension between different groups in Bolivian society, more dialogue is certainly necessary, a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c191WH (Link to this contribution) US strategy towards Latin America has changed for several reasons. Its economic problems, its obsess...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c191WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think it right, while the British Prime Minister is in Washington talking to...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c187-9WH (Link to this contribution) Yes. I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. As he says, we were accompanied throughout the vi...
Diane Abbott | 488 c189-90WH (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend has noted, President Evo Morales is the first indigenous president of Bolivia, in ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c190WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I first went to Latin America at the age of 19. I remember going to rem...
Jeff Ennis | 488 c190WH (Link to this contribution) On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that there is still a tension between the national Governme...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c191WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more, but I think the hon. Gentleman may be preparing to make a speech.
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c191WH (Link to this contribution) I do not remember calling at any time for protectionism in Latin America. I was talking about invest...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 488 c192WH (Link to this contribution) I understand why the hon. Gentleman has concentrated on Bolivia, but he has not said much about his ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c192WH (Link to this contribution) I have spoken for 35 minutes, and the hon. Gentleman tempts me to speak for another 35 minutes about...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c191WH (Link to this contribution) Not at all. I am merely trying to be helpful. Every export that might be prevented could have an imp...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c191-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I am missing something here, but I have said nothing of the sort. I am not sur...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c192WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be careful.
Diane Abbott | 488 c192WH (Link to this contribution) Time does not permit my hon. Friend to expand on the glories and triumphs of President Chavez in Ven...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c192WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that kind intervention. I am tempted to speak at great length about Venez...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c192-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am being extremely careful, but I am sure of my facts. President Chavez in Venezuela is taking so...
Speaker | 488 c193WH (Link to this contribution) Order. The winding-up speeches start in 21 minutes' time, so to be able to call all hon. Members who...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c193WH (Link to this contribution) I shall try to keep my remarks to 20 minutes. I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, North (J...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 488 c193-4WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) seemed to think that the whole nationalisation ...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c194-5WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, as he always does. The other relevant point is that there i...
Speaker | 488 c195WH (Link to this contribution) Certainly two other hon. Members wish to speak, and there are just 13 minutes left until the winding...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c195-6WH (Link to this contribution) To be helpful, Mr. Amess, I shall speak for just three more minutes, first on animal conservation an...
Colin Burgon | 488 c196-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn), who has few peers in ...
David Leslie Taylor | 488 c197WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend quoted the previous Prime Minister's reply to his question, but he has raised questio...
Colin Burgon | 488 c197WH (Link to this contribution) No, I believe in the class struggle, so if my opponents shout at me and carry on, I see it as part o...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) I stress that this is a debate not about immigration but about our relations with Latin America. How...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that we get on very well. I do not agree with much of what he says, but at ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) We are dealing with two issues here. One is the position of migrant workers in Europe. I personally ...
Mark Pritchard | 488 c185WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Latin American immigrants and migrants to this country ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 488 c183-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that we are debating UK relations with Latin America today. I shall divide my speech in...
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Biofuels Developing countries Development aid Diplomatic service Human rights Languages Forests Land use Ethnic groups EU external trade Foreign policy Foreign relations Poverty Mining Nature conservation Natural resources Politics and government Nationalisation Migrant workers Trade USA Visits abroad Venezuela Bolivia Latin America
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