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Ministerial statement on Monday, 13 July 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Gordon Brown.

G8 Summit

Statement on the G8 summit which took place on 8-10 July 2009 at L'Aquila, Italy.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
496 c21-42 
Session
2008-09
Department
Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Nick Clegg | 496 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and join him in paying tribute to Corporal Jonathan Hor...
Gordon Brown | 496 c27-30 (Link to this contribution) Let me start with Afghanistan. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for what he said about the ...
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Mike Gapes | 496 c32 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is to be congratulated on pushing climate change up the agenda of the meeting. Do...
Gordon Brown | 496 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that what I set out as our Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
Gordon Brown | 496 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee is absolutely right that we have to act urgently to de...
Speaker | 496 c33 (Link to this contribution) Order. Twenty-two Members are seeking to catch my eye; as always, I am keen to include as many as po...
Ian Taylor | 496 c33 (Link to this contribution) As my son is serving in Operation Panther's Claw, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on t...
Gordon Brown | 496 c33 (Link to this contribution) First, let me say about those serving in Afghanistan that we owe them a huge debt. These are very di...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 496 c25-7 (Link to this contribution) I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to the eight servicemen killed since last Wednesday: fro...
Gordon Brown | 496 c21-5 (Link to this contribution) statement This has been a sad and difficult time for our armed forces and for our country, and I am ...
Dennis Skinner | 496 c36 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. Friend remind the other leaders, when they were discussing the recession at the G8...
Gordon Brown | 496 c36 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will reconsider any plans for an early retirement. People will remember t...
William Cash | 496 c36 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister knows that millions of little children die from bad water and bad sanitation. He ...
Angus Robertson | 496 c36 (Link to this contribution) We join in the tributes and condolences that the Prime Minister gave and in his wish for stability i...
Gordon Brown | 496 c36 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will support our action in Afghanistan and recognise that more than 4...
Gordon Brown | 496 c37 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his work as Defence Secretary and in the Government. He was clear a...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 496 c37 (Link to this contribution) May I add my condolences to those expressed to the families of every single one of the young men and...
Gordon Brown | 496 c37 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly look at the statement that the hon. Gentleman cites from Pakistan. We have talked ...
Julian Lewis | 496 c37 (Link to this contribution) Following on directly from that, does the Prime Minister share the concern of Pakistan's Interior Mi...
Gordon Brown | 496 c34 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we should not believe all the rumours that are put around this place. We want to achieve a situ...
Ann Clwyd | 496 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) Can I ask my right hon. Friend to expand on one sentence in his statement? He said, "On Burma, we re...
Gordon Brown | 496 c34 (Link to this contribution) The Defence Secretary has rightly said that our role in the south began in 2006, and it has been a v...
Patrick Mercer | 496 c34 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said that the hard-won gains in Afghanistan must be fully consolidated. People at...
David Winnick | 496 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that much—indeed, all—of the criticism that has been directed at my right hon. Friend ov...
Gordon Brown | 496 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) President Sarkozy and I talked about this last week, and we issued a statement saying that by April ...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c35 (Link to this contribution) My friend talked about vigorously pursuing global financial stability and financial regulation. When...
Gordon Brown | 496 c35 (Link to this contribution) First, we have made progress in Afghanistan, and I disagree with what the hon. Gentleman has said. T...
Peter Tapsell | 496 c35 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Prime Minister that ever since we went back into Afghanistan in 2003, I have repeat...
Gordon Brown | 496 c35 (Link to this contribution) As I know my right hon. Friend is a long-term campaigner for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, I shou...
Gordon Brown | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and this is exactly the point that I was talking to Prime Minister Sing...
Bob Spink | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) We should congratulate the Prime Minister on his leadership on climate change. Will he set out a tim...
Tony Lloyd | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's role in pushing forward the climate change agenda is well understood. However, ...
Gordon Brown | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) First, because where there is hunger we want to act immediately, and the urgency of acting on hunger...
Gordon Brown | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Some £20 billion will be invested in nuclear power over the nex...
Keith Vaz | 496 c38 (Link to this contribution) If the Prime Minister looks at the development conclusions, I hope that he will consider countries s...
Gordon Brown | 496 c39 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday I raised the question of the family law being enacted in Afghanistan, as I have on many oc...
Paul Flynn | 496 c39 (Link to this contribution) President Karzai has refused to reduce the 20-year sentence on a man sent to prison for accessing a ...
Gordon Brown | 496 c39 (Link to this contribution) It has not been the practice of the Ministry of Defence to reveal the numbers of helicopters in any ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 496 c42 (Link to this contribution) May I assure my right hon. Friend that the House, and indeed the whole country, will be very reassur...
Gordon Brown | 496 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comments on Afghanistan. As far as oil is concerned, yes, we are ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 496 c42 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister aware that many people in this country think that the policy is Afghanistan is...
Gordon Brown | 496 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right that the tribal chiefs and tribes in Afghan...
Gordon Brown | 496 c42 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will look at the strategy that we announced in April and the way in which...
Mark Durkan | 496 c41 (Link to this contribution) First, I join others in offering my condolences to the families and friends of the soldiers killed i...
Bob Russell | 496 c41 (Link to this contribution) This time last year, soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade were losing their lives in Afghanistan. Do...
Gordon Brown | 496 c40 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes very wise comments about the connection between Afghanistan and Pakistan....
Gerald Kaufman | 496 c40 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that I have heard today from a constituent about the kidnapping of a r...
Gordon Brown | 496 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) First, it is going to be important that all countries sign up to a climate change deal at Copenhagen...
Sammy Wilson | 496 c39 (Link to this contribution) May I join in paying tribute to those who have lost their lives in fighting to protect our country i...
Gordon Brown | 496 c41 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we are asking companies to consider moving into green, low-carbo...
Nia Griffith | 496 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on taking the lead in securing G8 agreement on ambitious climate...
Gordon Brown | 496 c40 (Link to this contribution) I have been very clear about what we are doing in Afghanistan. We are trying to take ground, to hold...
Bernard Jenkin | 496 c40 (Link to this contribution) Rather than asking the defence chiefs to give the Prime Minister an assurance that, as he put it in ...
Gordon Brown | 496 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely that we must do more to ensure that water is clean and that sanitation services are...
Gordon Brown | 496 c41 (Link to this contribution) Estonia and Denmark are working with the United States and Britain in Helmand. Countries present at ...
Baroness Featherstone | 496 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I listened to what the Prime Minister said about the 60 per cent. increase in the number of helicopt...
Subjects
Children Armed forces Agriculture Climate change Deployment Developing countries Africa Armoured fighting vehicles Health services Finance International assistance G8 Helicopters Nuclear weapons Peacekeeping operations Pakistan Maternity services Proliferation Myanmar Afghanistan Iran Italy Taliban World economy Aung San Suu Kyi Swine flu
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