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Zimbabwe

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

508 c99-120WH 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for International Development

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Hugh Bayley | 508 c105WH (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely. I must tread cautiously so that I do not reveal what is in the report. However, ...

Gareth Thomas | 508 c106WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend referred to the stabilisation of the economy. Would he at this point join me in notin...

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Hugh Bayley | 508 c106-8WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will. I know that every hon. Member in this Chamber would also wish to join the Minister in s...

Nicholas Winterton | 508 c105WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has not yet mentioned the number of farms that Mr. Mugabe has handed over to memb...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c105-6WH (Link to this contribution) This is the central tragedy: a country that used not only to be self-sufficient, but to export food ...

Baroness Hoey | 508 c109-11WH (Link to this contribution) Of course. It is refreshing to see President Zuma engage much more with the issue. Indeed, shortly a...

Nicholas Winterton | 508 c109WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentions an important trade union leader who has fled to South Africa, but what about ...

Baroness Hoey | 508 c108-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) on his debate. Today, I have...

Speaker | 508 c108WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I advise Members that I intend to begin calling the Front-Bench spokesmen at 3.30 pm.

Lord Benyon | 508 c111-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to hear the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) speak about Zimbabwe. Her c...

Ed Davey | 508 c113-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) on securing the debate and he and his ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 508 c115-6WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) for obtaining this debate. It is ver...

William Cash | 508 c116-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, Mrs. Dean, that I had to nip out for a European Scrutiny Committee sitting. Does my hon...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 508 c117-8WH (Link to this contribution) As he so often does, my hon. Friend reads my mind; I was coming on to that point. We need to make th...

Gareth Thomas | 508 c118-9WH (Link to this contribution) I join others in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) on securing...

William Cash | 508 c119WH (Link to this contribution) Are the Government ensuring that the aid we give goes to sanitation measures?

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 508 c120WH (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister able to enlighten us on any discussions that the Government have had with President ...

Gareth Thomas | 508 c119-20WH (Link to this contribution) We are giving support for sanitation measures. The hon. Gentleman gives me the opportunity to point ...

Speaker | 508 c120WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must now move on to the next debate.

Gareth Thomas | 508 c120WH (Link to this contribution) As I have said, one the key ways for SADC and South Africa to take forward the process is to meet wi...

Robert Smith | 508 c101WH (Link to this contribution) I should declare an interest, as my nephew is a Zimbabwean who has been evicted from farmland. The ...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c101-2WH (Link to this contribution) The only thing with which I disagree is the use of "we". It is not for us but for the Government of ...

William Cash | 508 c102WH (Link to this contribution) I was an official observer in the Rhodesian elections back in 1982 and I remember meeting members of...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c99WH (Link to this contribution) Today's debate gives us an opportunity to discuss the Africa all-party group's latest report, "Land ...

Nicholas Winterton | 508 c99-100WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has quite rightly outlined the facts and gave the statistics about land invasions...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c100-1WH (Link to this contribution) I believe that that is the case and I am glad to hear the hon. Gentleman, who has been vocal on this...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c104WH (Link to this contribution) I should make progress or I will be delivering my speech in bits. I agree strongly with the provisio...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 508 c104WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for alluding to the work of the International Development Commit...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c103WH (Link to this contribution) With the hon. Gentleman's support, I am damned sure that the Bill will go through. I believe it will...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 508 c104WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested to find out what the situation in Zimbabwe is today and what the hon. Gentleman thin...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c103WH (Link to this contribution) This report does not, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that the group's last report entitled "The Oth...

Nicholas Winterton | 508 c103WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I had the honour of chairing the Bribery Public Bill Committee, and the...

Gregory Campbell | 508 c103WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is coming on to something that afflicts Zimbabwe and much of Africa: corruption. ...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c102-3WH (Link to this contribution) We did not consider capital flows in detail in the report, but that is an important issue. Perhaps i...

William Cash | 508 c102WH (Link to this contribution) "Willing seller, willing buyer" is one thing, but the fact that the seller could not repatriate the ...

Hugh Bayley | 508 c102WH (Link to this contribution) We did not discuss with Lord Carrington the situation after the Lancaster house talks, other than in...

Subjects

Development aid Land Human rights Farms Ownership Politics and government Reform Violence Zimbabwe

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