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Ministerial statement on Monday, 28 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.

G8 and G20 Summits

Statement on the G8 and G20 summits which took place in Canada.

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Parliamentary proceeding
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512 c565-84 
Session
2010-12
Department
Prime Minister
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House of Commons chamber
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Deposited Paper DEP2010-1355
Monday, 28 June 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Austin of Dudley | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has cracked jokes about his bilateral last night with Chancellor Merkel, but mill...
Speaker | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) That was a bit wide of the summit, but not, I am sure, of the Prime Minister's capacities.
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Speaker | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) I saved the hon. Gentleman up.
Clive Efford | 512 c583 (Link to this contribution) Were there any discussions about the possibility of one of our European neighbours falling into furt...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c583 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. There were discussions about what could be done, such as having internation...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c583 (Link to this contribution) There are great concerns, particularly in the eurozone, about the sovereign debt and other problems ...
Rehman Chishti | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) Apart from the military operation in Afghanistan, what steps are being taken to win over the hearts ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) One can find any number of economists taking any number of different views. I say that as someone wh...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point about religious education. It has been more of a problem in P...
Andrew Love | 512 c582 (Link to this contribution) Has not the Prime Minister been a little selective in his quotes from the IMF? Did it not say clearl...
Philip Hollobone | 512 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) The communiqué says that the present situation in Gaza is not sustainable and must be changed. Was t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c582 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right in one regard: the upside scenario posed by the IMF adds to growth and t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c582 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman missed the previous Parliament, but he could have read about some of ...
Philip Davies | 512 c582 (Link to this contribution) May I urge caution on my right hon. Friend when it comes to Turkey's membership of the European Unio...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c582 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, there is not quite complete agreement on this issue, but as I would say ...
Derek Twigg | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said in his statement that the G8 sent a collective signal that "we want the Afgh...
Chris Leslie | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) When the Prime Minister was discussing the banking levy at the G20, did he explain to his colleagues...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the important point, which the International Monetary Fund also makes, that if ...
Claire O'Neill | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) I read on page 3 of the G20 communiqué that fiscal consolidation plans should be credible and clearl...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) The point is that for many years after our troops have left, we will have a strong relationship with...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister confirm that the only occasions in the past 25 years when England have beate...
Jason McCartney | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) As one of the many millions of disappointed football fans around our country today, may I thank the ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) That was an ingenious way of bringing goal-line technology into a statement on the G20, and I am ama...
Guy Opperman | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) In the Prime Minister's absence last week, he might have missed two surprising events. First, the sh...
Speaker | 512 c581 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is always a pleasure to listen to the hon. Gentleman, but the Prime Minister is not respon...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) I had very positive meetings with President Hu of China and President Medvedev of Russia. We discuss...
Alec Shelbrooke | 512 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister find time during the G20 summit to speak to the leaders of Russia and China a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) It is quite difficult to talk about deflation when monetary policy is as loose as it is and when int...
Kelvin Hopkins | 512 c580 (Link to this contribution) Almost 80 years ago, countries across the world adopted policies of fiscal tightening and gave us th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c578 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We are trying to put in place a system where banks have to ask themselves w...
Paul Flynn | 512 c578 (Link to this contribution) How can the Prime Minister retain his optimism after 11 British deaths in 10 days? How can a stable ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has long taken that view, but even though he makes that case he wildly overstates...
Brian Binley | 512 c579 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will know that business growth is vital for the Chancellor's plans and that credi...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c579 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and the concern that we should have about the economy ...
Michael Connarty | 512 c579 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister mentioned that he had four useful bipartite meetings. Did he meet Juan Manuel San...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c579 (Link to this contribution) I did not meet the President-elect; I did meet the current President, President Uribe, who was at th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. We are all concerned about the number of casualties in Afghanistan. He ...
Andrea Leadsom | 512 c578 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that our global banking system remains incredibly risky, and that bear...
David Winnick | 512 c577 (Link to this contribution) I praise, of course, the troops who have died and those who, sadly and unfortunately, are likely to ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c577 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's question. The UN Secretary-General was, of course, at the G20 mee...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c577 (Link to this contribution) We have supported—and, indeed, before the election we put forward a case for—gender pay audits, part...
Denis MacShane | 512 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has had three international outings and he has acquitted himself very well; it wo...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c576 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of the Ministers resigning from President Karzai's Government, he has put in place quit...
John Baron | 512 c576 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my right hon. Friend will agree that if we are to succeed in Afghanistan, we need unity of...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c576 (Link to this contribution) I have had those conversations at both the G8 and the G20. It is good that there is all-party agreem...
Mark Pritchard | 512 c575 (Link to this contribution) Prime Minister Harper has reiterated his plans to start withdrawing Canadian troops from Afghanistan...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c576 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to ask that question. A discussion has been held. However, I think we should...
Tony Baldry | 512 c575 (Link to this contribution) In the context of international development, the publication of the accountability report is very we...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) I discussed that with the IMF over the weekend. Dominique Strauss-Kahn's own interventions in the de...
Jeremy Corbyn | 512 c575 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is right to draw attention to the likelihood of deaths in pregnancy in sub-Sahara...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c575 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need a process of continual checking up on the progress being...
Julian Lewis | 512 c574 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Prime Minister wants the existing strategy to be given more time to succeed, but wil...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) There is a difference between what Canada has decided and what President Obama is undertaking. Canad...
Tony Lloyd | 512 c574 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister prayed in aid the International Monetary Fund earlier, but he did not quote the I...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c574 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend is working hard on the middle way option, and that he is going to do furt...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c575 (Link to this contribution) I would not say that the summit was complacent. It was my first G8 summit, and I was struck by the f...
Angus Robertson | 512 c573 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for the advance copy of his statement. I associate the Scottish National ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c572 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question and his probably justified rebuke, which was well ...
Lord Blunkett | 512 c572 (Link to this contribution) I was going to congratulate the Prime Minister on his first foray into the G8 and G20, but he has al...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) The message is clear: countries that face big fiscal challenges have to address those challenges. Le...
Peter Tapsell | 512 c571 (Link to this contribution) Is part of President Obama's message to the leading industrial countries of continental Europe not t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c573 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way in which he put his question. This is one of those t...
Geoffrey Robinson | 512 c572-3 (Link to this contribution) May I push the Prime Minister slightly harder on the issue of Afghanistan and talking to the Taliban...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c572 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to answer both those questions briefly. The way to judge progress in Afghanistan is in te...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 512 c572 (Link to this contribution) By what criteria will it be judged that Afghanistan is sufficiently stable to allow us to withdraw o...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c573 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my right hon. Friend on that. Transitioning provinces and districts to Afghan...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 512 c573 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend was absolutely right to say that none of us wants to stay in Afghanistan a mome...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c565-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the G8 and G20 summits which took p...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her response. We are preparing for the Kabul summit by ...
Baroness Harman | 512 c568-70 (Link to this contribution) I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to the service personnel who have died in Afghanistan si...
Speaker | 512 c571 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, so brevity is required, a legen...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 512 c584 (Link to this contribution) There are parts of sport and politics that probably should not mix. It is no laughing matter; it was...
Baroness Berger | 512 c583 (Link to this contribution) Also in the newspapers this weekend were comments by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 512 c576 (Link to this contribution) I realise that watching the football with Angela Merkel cannot have been much fun for the Prime Mini...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c577 (Link to this contribution) Whether it be Afghanistan, the global economy or, indeed, tackling climate change, the G8 and G20 su...
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Banks Climate change Canada Finance International assistance Economic situation G8 Peacekeeping operations Taxation Trade agreements UN resolutions Sanctions Afghanistan Israel Palestine Iran Middle East Peace negotiations North Korea G20 International economic policy
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