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Afghanistan

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

523 c732-45 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

David Miliband | 523 c738 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Defence Secretary for the open way in which he conducts these quarterly reports. I hope ...

Liam Fox | 523 c738 (Link to this contribution) It is very clear that it is unlikely that a single political initiative will bring all the players i...

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Liam Fox | 523 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes several important points. There are few things that would give me mor...

Jim Murphy | 523 c735-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the chance to respond and I thank the Secretary of State for his update and for advance si...

Liam Fox | 523 c732-5 (Link to this contribution) Statement With permission, Mr Speaker, I will report to the House the Government's assessment of pro...

Bernard Jenkin | 523 c738 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and particularly for his last few words on involving...

Liam Fox | 523 c737 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful not only for the content of the right hon. Gentleman's response, but for its...

Liam Fox | 523 c741 (Link to this contribution) There would be a real risk of instability in the whole region. Again, I go back to the issue of Paki...

Alec Shelbrooke | 523 c741 (Link to this contribution) Drawing on my right hon. Friend's comments about the situation about Pakistan, I ask him to update t...

Liam Fox | 523 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct that increasingly attention will be focused on the political element o...

Geoffrey Robinson | 523 c740 (Link to this contribution) May I, as others have, compliment the Secretary of State on the considered tone of his statement? Ho...

Liam Fox | 523 c740 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, being colour blind, I cannot share in the enthusiasm on that last point. However, I say to my...

Andrew Murrison | 523 c740 (Link to this contribution) What confidence does my right hon. Friend have in the principal overland supply route from Karachi, ...

Liam Fox | 523 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that offer. I have often thought about how, through our development aid, we are wi...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 523 c739 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, pay tribute to the soldiers serving in Afghanistan? I recently had the privilege of meet...

Liam Fox | 523 c739 (Link to this contribution) I am not able to give those details today, although my hon. Friend is correct to say that we will do...

James Gray | 523 c739 (Link to this contribution) The whole House will have been saddened by the death of the two young soldiers in Camp Bastion this ...

Lord Walney | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has made it clear today that troops ““may”” begin to be withdrawn this year, ...

Liam Fox | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has made it very clear that, although we would like to see British troops coming ...

Liam Fox | 523 c744 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I am the best person to arbitrate on that question. From discussing the issue wit...

Oliver Colvile | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) In the past, my right hon. Friend has mentioned the fact that 11,000 of our troops have been in Afgh...

Liam Fox | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) It is always the wish of Members on both sides of the House that our troops should come back with th...

Paul Flynn | 523 c744 (Link to this contribution) Still optimism after 10 years! That is a longer period than the first world war and the second world...

Liam Fox | 523 c744 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants always to focus on the problems we face, there is a long list from which...

Liam Fox | 523 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) History teaches us that in any insurgency or conflict, we inevitably move from a military phase, tak...

David Crausby | 523 c742 (Link to this contribution) Following today's announced cuts in RAF training, which will deny us the use of pilots who are virtu...

Liam Fox | 523 c741 (Link to this contribution) Strategic air cover for Afghanistan is some way down the line, but it will be required when there is...

Adam Holloway | 523 c741 (Link to this contribution) There are many Afghans outside the ruling clique who believe not only that the exit strategy will no...

Madeleine Moon | 523 c741 (Link to this contribution) The Select Committee on Defence was able to see first hand how the training of the Afghan national s...

Liam Fox | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman, because I was in fact able to make our thanks known directl...

Liam Fox | 523 c742 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, but I think that the signs are perhaps more optimistic than she suggest...

Liam Fox | 523 c742 (Link to this contribution) There were in fact no cuts announced today, other than in some of the newspapers, which were catchin...

Penny Mordaunt | 523 c742 (Link to this contribution) I also recently visited Afghanistan and can testify to the excellent job that our armed forces are d...

Liam Fox | 523 c745 (Link to this contribution) With difficulty, but persistence. The former Foreign Secretary, the right hon. Member for South Shie...

Peter Bone | 523 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for making his statement and also, on behalf of the House, for giving...

Daniel Byles | 523 c743 (Link to this contribution) It is sometimes easy, when talking about regional geopolitics, to forget the individual soldiers swe...

Denis MacShane | 523 c742 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that the small country of Georgia has actually lost more soldier...

Subjects

Armed forces Deployment Police Recruitment Peacekeeping operations Military alliances Security USA Afghanistan NATO Literacy al Qaeda ISAF

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