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Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

497 c299-320 

Session

2008-09

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Gordon Brown | 497 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the very important point that if we are to have Afghan responsibility for A...

Mark Durkan | 497 c314 (Link to this contribution) First, may I associate myself with the respect paid by the Prime Minister to all those who have lost...

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Hugh Bayley | 497 c313 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Prime Minister to maintain a close interest in the poppy cultivation problem. Such cultiva...

Gordon Brown | 497 c313 (Link to this contribution) The International Development Secretary will be able to write to my hon. Friend in detail about the ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 497 c314 (Link to this contribution) Even allowing for the considerable and remarkable expertise of British troops in training the Afghan...

Gordon Brown | 497 c314 (Link to this contribution) I agree that one of the big questions is how we can train Afghan forces at a far more rapid rate tha...

Gordon Prentice | 497 c312 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the new timelines that the Prime Minister mentioned in his statement. What will h...

Gordon Brown | 497 c313 (Link to this contribution) It is not the assumption that we will move in. Yes, there will be greater presence from the Afghan a...

David Davis | 497 c313 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is right to emphasise the role of the Afghan security services, but Afghanistan i...

Gordon Brown | 497 c313 (Link to this contribution) First, Afghanistan is very different from Iraq. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman should accept tha...

Gordon Brown | 497 c312 (Link to this contribution) I will look in detail at the individual cases that are raised but, as I have said, our focus is on A...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 497 c312 (Link to this contribution) As I am a member of the Territorial Army who has served in Afghanistan, the Prime Minister will unde...

Gordon Brown | 497 c312 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that there must be burden-sharing. Before the elections, I and ot...

Gordon Brown | 497 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) We have been proposing something similar for the last 18 months. I think people have recognised that...

David Crausby | 497 c312 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the threat posed by al-Qaeda applies to all NATO member countri...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 497 c311 (Link to this contribution) After eight years, what confidence can we have that the strategy announced by the Prime Minister tod...

Gordon Brown | 497 c311 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman has made an important point. In hand-to-hand, one-to-one fighti...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 497 c311 (Link to this contribution) In July, when I last visited Afghanistan, I saw for myself not only the tremendous job that our arme...

Peter Bone | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, my son was deployed to Afghanistan for the third time. I wish to take this opportunity to...

Gordon Brown | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) There are more Chinooks going to Afghanistan next year.

Barry Gardiner | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) At a meeting of the Pakistan-India friendship forum last weekend, I was struck by the number of peop...

Gordon Brown | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) We want to see that change in governance. We want to strengthen, first of all, the Pakistan Governme...

Stewart Hosie | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) Public opinion on Afghanistan is, at best, hanging by a thread, because of the anxiety about corrupt...

Gordon Brown | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) We can immediately measure our success in dealing with IEDs and preventing the deaths that they have...

John McDonnell | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) Following that point, this year this war has cost not only 200 British lives but 1,000 Afghan lives....

Gordon Brown | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) I have just said—I hope that I am able to emphasise this—that the reason why those troops are being ...

Paul Flynn | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) How dare we ask more British soldiers to risk their lives for a corrupt President, his depraved poli...

Gordon Brown | 497 c317 (Link to this contribution) We have been setting out the new thinking about Afghanisation over the past few months. I hope that ...

Gordon Brown | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) I just do not accept the hon. Gentleman's conclusion. A lot of the casualties have, unfortunately, b...

Gordon Brown | 497 c315 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is talking about a vehicle that is made near or in her constituency. She...

Peter Tapsell | 497 c315 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to the Prime Minister that anyone who thinks that a NATO-trained Afghan army recruited ...

Gordon Brown | 497 c315 (Link to this contribution) There is, of course, a case for that and we would want to see it happen in the future. The hon. Gent...

Linda Gilroy | 497 c315 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister mentioned in his statement welcome investment to ensure that the kit and the equi...

Gordon Brown | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to my hon. Friend that we have laid out a strategy that does not leave things as they ...

Julian Lewis | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister admits that 80 per cent. of our casualties have been caused by roadside bombs. Wh...

Gordon Brown | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) There is a 41-nation coalition that sees its responsibility as making sure that we can deal with the...

David Winnick | 497 c316 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that the reason for the growing opposition in Britain to the military ...

Bob Russell | 497 c315 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's statement was silent on the continued abject failure of the major European NATO...

Gordon Brown | 497 c320 (Link to this contribution) We are giving more money to the Afghan effort, not less. The money has gone up substantially over th...

Sammy Wilson | 497 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) From the long IRA campaign in Northern Ireland, we recognise the value to terrorists of being able t...

Shailesh Vara | 497 c320 (Link to this contribution) Was the Prime Minister asked for a further 2,000 troops or not? It is a straightforward question, an...

Gordon Brown | 497 c320 (Link to this contribution) I think that I should tell the right hon. Gentleman—although he might not accept it—that over the pa...

Andrew MacKay | 497 c320 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the vexed problem of backsliding by certain of our NATO colleagues, which makes it diff...

Madeleine Moon | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) The role of NGOs and skilled civilians from across Government Departments, working alongside the Arm...

Gordon Brown | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) I have just said that there is going to be a new training academy for police. That is one of the way...

Lord Swire | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) The recruitment, training and retention of an additional 52,000 police are a challenge and will take...

Gordon Brown | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have seen that Tim Radford, who commanded Operation Panther's Claw, said tha...

Adam Holloway | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) Frankly, I am staggered at the Prime Minister's characterisation of the deaths from IEDs as being ca...

Gordon Brown | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) First, what I meant was that there has been no announcement yet from America about what its future d...

Viscount Hailsham | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has said that the initial deployment is dependent on coalition countries ta...

Gordon Brown | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that I have regularly spoken to President Karzai about the need ...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 497 c319 (Link to this contribution) Following that question, will the Prime Minister acknowledge that President Karzai is excluding wome...

Gordon Brown | 497 c318 (Link to this contribution) It must be and will be. I would be happy to talk to my hon. Friend about how we want to move this fo...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 497 c303-4 (Link to this contribution) We have long called for regular reports to Parliament on Afghanistan and Pakistan, so we very much w...

Speaker | 497 c299 (Link to this contribution) May I ask Members who are leaving the Chamber please to do so quickly and quietly so that we can hea...

Gordon Brown | 497 c299-303 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on Afghanistan and Pakistan: first, ...

Gordon Brown | 497 c309 (Link to this contribution) I must tell my hon. Friend that our strategy is to create a situation in which British troops can st...

Jeremy Corbyn | 497 c309 (Link to this contribution) On Saturday 24 October, thousands of people will march through London calling for British troops to ...

Speaker | 497 c309 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to accommodate as many as possible of the more than 30 Members who are seeking to catc...

Gordon Brown | 497 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's first remarks were that we did not have a strategy for Afghanistan and th...

Nick Clegg | 497 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, quite a lot of which I welcome. We on the Liberal Demo...

Gordon Brown | 497 c304-7 (Link to this contribution) I will answer every specific point that the right hon. Gentleman has raised, but I want to stress th...

Geoffrey Robinson | 497 c310 (Link to this contribution) The whole House will be greatly reassured by what my right hon. Friend has said about the need to re...

Gordon Brown | 497 c310 (Link to this contribution) I have talked to both President Karzai and Dr. Abdullah about how, whatever happens about the electi...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 497 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) We have still not been given a proper answer on the request for 2,000 extra troops, so I will not bo...

Gordon Brown | 497 c310 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the approaches that we are considering. The European Union responsibility for the tra...

Gordon Brown | 497 c311 (Link to this contribution) The Afghan security services have already taken responsibility in some areas of Afghanistan, but it ...

Malcolm Rifkind | 497 c310 (Link to this contribution) While it is unlikely that the Taliban can be eliminated, even with increased NATO troops, is it not ...

Gordon Brown | 497 c320 (Link to this contribution) It is a straightforward question and I have answered it on many occasions, including before the Sele...

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Armed forces Peacekeeping operations Pakistan Terrorism Afghanistan al Qaeda Improvised explosive devices

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