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Debate on Wednesday, 3 November 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Owen Paterson. The answering member was Shaun Woodward.

Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Report)

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. Agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
517 c951-1013 
Session
2010-12
Department
Northern Ireland Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 517 c963 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, may I remind everyone that there is a 10-minute limit on Back...
Speaker | 517 c992 (Link to this contribution) Order. I find myself in the position of being able to extend the time limit for the remaining speake...
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Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 517 c967 (Link to this contribution) It depends what the hon. Gentleman means by political. I am not saying for a moment that it was a pa...
Sammy Wilson | 517 c967 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not see where his argument is leading? It appears that, for political ...
Ben Wallace | 517 c964-6 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the hon. Gentleman's points. Regiments are always living things: they come and go; diffe...
Mark Durkan | 517 c964 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly refers to many of the landmark atrocities in Northern Ireland. Does he ag...
Gregory Campbell | 517 c967 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has, perhaps inadvertently, touched on some of the problems with the Savill...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 517 c966 (Link to this contribution) Lord Saville's final sentence is:"““Bloody Sunday was a tragedy for the wounded and the bereaved, an...
Shaun Woodward | 517 c957-63 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point and I may address it specifically a little later in my remarks...
Sammy Wilson | 517 c957 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman's explanation on that issue, but if the principles that he has...
Ben Wallace | 517 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak so early in the debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is a privilege to fo...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 517 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) All that took place over a period of 15 years or so. One of the purposes of the Historical Enquiries...
Gregory Campbell | 517 c970 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is accurately explaining what Lord Saville said in that section of the conclusion...
Laurence Robertson | 517 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Torfaen (Paul Murphy). He ended his speech by dr...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 517 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend raised that issue with the Director of Public Prosecutions. If there are indica...
Kris Hopkins | 517 c968 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that the Army was an instrument of Government and must therefore be ac...
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 517 c975-7 (Link to this contribution) On 30 January 1972, the day known as Bloody Sunday, I was 13 years old, growing up in Northern Irela...
Tom Brake | 517 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a brief contribution. In the Chamber today there are many experts on this subject, some...
Gregory Campbell | 517 c972-4 (Link to this contribution) Lord Saville and his team carried out public hearings beginning in March 2000, and the final witness...
Laurence Robertson | 517 c971 (Link to this contribution) I am quoting from the summary, but I am well aware that there is a mass of further information behin...
Patrick Mercer | 517 c980-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Tom Gre...
Tom Greatrex | 517 c978-80 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important and significant debate and to be a...
Kris Hopkins | 517 c984-6 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate my support for the Prime Minister's comments and the apology that he made back in June. ...
Alasdair McDonnell | 517 c982-4 (Link to this contribution) I begin my brief contribution by extending a welcome to some of the family members of those who died...
Alasdair McDonnell | 517 c988 (Link to this contribution) The families in Ballymurphy have asked for a withdrawal of the slur on their loved ones. By referrin...
Jim Shannon | 517 c986-8 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a contribution to the debate. Much was said at the Bloody Sunday inquiry about how Br...
Mel Stride | 517 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to speak, although I recognise that I do not possess as intimate a knowled...
Jim Shannon | 517 c988-9 (Link to this contribution) I am all for getting the truth—I am the first person to put my hand up for that—but I want truth for...
Stephen Phillips | 517 c991 (Link to this contribution) One of the criticisms rightly levelled at the Widgery inquiry and report was that the scope had been...
Owen Paterson | 517 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman very much for his kind comments. I pay tribute to his work over the...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 517 c954 (Link to this contribution) The point that the right hon. Gentleman is highlighting is extremely important. It is right to put o...
Owen Paterson | 517 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady touches on one of the many terrible ““what ifs””. The report shows so many turns, wher...
Paul Goggins | 517 c953 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House wants to join the Secretary of State in paying tribute to the familie...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 517 c956 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of costs, the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State in charge of the Northern Ire...
Shaun Woodward | 517 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that the Government brought forward what would become the Inquiri...
Owen Paterson | 517 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for supporting my comments on the service of those in the security ...
Shaun Woodward | 517 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) First, I pay tribute to the men and women who were killed on 30 January 1972. While honouring them, ...
Owen Paterson | 517 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry....
John Baron | 517 c952 (Link to this contribution) I concur with my right hon. Friend's points. I have seen at first hand the sacrifice of our security...
Owen Paterson | 517 c952 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments, which I endorse. Lord Saville and his colleagues go to some...
Lady Hermon | 517 c952 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for taking a second intervention so quickly. Why on ear...
Mark Durkan | 517 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister acknowledge that Irish Governments have successively, no matter what party was in ...
Lord Swire | 517 c1013 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and our heart goes out to him. The Secretary of State and I have writte...
Lord Swire | 517 c1010-2 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State is at least consistent in so much as he received the responses back in...
Eric Joyce | 517 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and take note of what he says. I take pleasure in agreeing with his comments ...
Lord Swire | 517 c1007 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is too young to remember it.
Eric Joyce | 517 c1005 (Link to this contribution) I should like to begin by thanking colleagues and Members of the House for their friendly comments a...
Chris Ruane | 517 c1006 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for my late intervention; I wanted to speak earlier, but did not manage to catch Mr Spea...
Lord Swire | 517 c1009 (Link to this contribution) This has been an extremely welcome and well-informed debate, which has honoured the commitment given...
Eric Joyce | 517 c1007-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that I am slightly older than the hon. Gentleman, so that is very nice of him. I recall the...
Lord Swire | 517 c1009-10 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman as he did not speak in the debate and I must make progress...
Shaun Woodward | 517 c1010 (Link to this contribution) Just for the record, I would advise the Minister to look a little more closely at the reasons why we...
Mark Durkan | 517 c992-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. As the MP for Foyle, for the city of Derry, I welcome the fact that we...
Oliver Colvile | 517 c995-7 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, may I thank you very much indeed for giving me the opportunity to speak in this d...
David Simpson | 517 c997-9 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good debate. We are dealing primarily with the Saville inquiry, which of course lead...
Gavin Williamson | 517 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak in the Chamber on such a signif...
Stephen Phillips | 517 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) I wish to associate myself not only with the statement that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister ...
Gregory Campbell | 517 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is elaborating succinctly on the tall order of expecting a judge to remember clea...
Stephen Phillips | 517 c1003-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed it is, and perhaps I was expressing myself unclearly. The difficulty for anyone who presides ...
Mel Stride | 517 c991-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend makes an important point, and I am certainly not here to defend the Widge...
Jack Dromey | 517 c1000-2 (Link to this contribution) Forty-eight hours after Bloody Sunday, I was on the ground in Derry with a team of lawyers from the ...
Bob Stewart | 517 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) The events of 30 January 1972 are a hideous stain on the British Army's reputation. It was a bloody ...
Subjects
Armed forces Costs Inquiries Homicide IRA Northern Ireland Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry Historical Enquiries Team
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