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Libya

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Parliamentary proceeding

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532 c23-48 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c44 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised an important point. I think it will help that not only do we now have ...

Toby Perkins | 532 c44 (Link to this contribution) Glapwell Contracting Services in my constituency was in the process of completing a contract with th...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge of this matter, and he is right to make that point. I hav...

Bob Stewart | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) The act of surrendering is probably the most dangerous thing that a combatant has to do. How can we ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) I believe that Musa Kusa is currently in Doha, where he has spent quite a lot of time, but I underst...

Mike Hancock | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind the widespread media interest in the whereabouts of Musa Kusa, can the Prime Ministe...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made the important point that this would not have happened without the Libyan peo...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) That is an entirely reasonable point. So far the cost of our contribution to operations has been £12...

Philip Hollobone | 532 c44 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Prime Minister for his leadership throughout this episode, but may I press him on the ...

Alec Shelbrooke | 532 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his work in going to the UN before any military action was ...

Mark Menzies | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has already recognised the game-changing role that the RAF and the Typhoon Eurofi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) I hear absolutely what my hon. Friend says, but I do not think that I can entirely give that assuran...

Lord Sharma | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate the Prime Minister on leading the international effort in Libya. May I say that i...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to do that. As I say, the Tornado performed magnificently in the skies above Libya, b...

Jason McCartney | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) A lot of lessons have been learned, such as not helping the sons of dictators with their university ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do that. We have helped through the ICRC to provide medical assistance to 5,000 people...

Stephen Hammond | 532 c47 (Link to this contribution) I join colleagues who have praised the military effort and the clarity of the Prime Minister's purpo...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and the Secretary General of the Arab League is going to Damascus...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c47 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he says. I hope that dictators throughout the world will ha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. That is why I raised the case personally with Pr...

David Morris | 532 c47 (Link to this contribution) It is refreshing to see a Prime Minister leading from the front, as my hon. Friend the Member for Re...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c47 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. We need to encourage Israel to work with all its moderate friends ...

Julian Brazier | 532 c47 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate the Prime Minister both on his role throughout this conflict and the cautious way...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Let me say again that I think it was right to re-form a rel...

Gareth Johnson | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Prime Minister that we should not rush to judgment on some of these issues, but doe...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, the Government cannot stand behind every contract that every individual firm enters into ...

Stephen Metcalfe | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend will be aware, and as we have heard this afternoon, a number of businesses, ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) I have a feeling that if they invited him again, they might treat him rather differently this time. ...

Henry Smith | 532 c48 (Link to this contribution) Five years ago, the then Government invited two of Gaddafi's sons to visit SAS headquarters, which I...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely a matter for the Intelligence and Security Committee what it examines, but I am sur...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) May I join in the tributes to the courage of our servicemen and women in their action over Libya, to...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) The Italians and Maltese are extremely keen that people should return and there is now every reason ...

Julian Lewis | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) As well as the Gibson inquiry, does the Prime Minister see a role for the Intelligence and Security ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) That is not a consideration that we have gone into so far. Clearly there have been costs to the UK f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will do that and it is a vital issue. There is no doubt that the Libyan provision of Sem...

Lord Lilley | 532 c33 (Link to this contribution) After the liberation of Kuwait, in which Britain also played a significant part, the financial costs...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) Large numbers of Libyans have fled their country in the past few months. What discussions have there...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) One should treat all these reports with concern, and we should obviously always look carefully at wh...

Patrick Mercer | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) How concerned is the Prime Minister about reports of Islamist influence in the new Libyan Government...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 532 c30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has been circumspect in his references to the documents which have recently eme...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is entirely right. As I put it in my statement, the accusation is t...

Chris Bryant | 532 c31 (Link to this contribution) I, too, commend the Prime Minister on the role that he has played this year, but I urge him to use t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c31 (Link to this contribution) I certainly join the hon. Gentleman in loathing the human rights abuses that are taking place in Syr...

Richard Ottaway | 532 c31 (Link to this contribution) As someone who had reservations about the principle of intervention, may I congratulate the Prime Mi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c31 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he says. Everyone should have misgivings about such operati...

Jeremy Corbyn | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) Will the inquiry conducted by Sir Peter Gibson be held entirely in public? Will it have access to al...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's question. On Sir Peter Gibson's inquiry, some of it will be h...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c30 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he says about me, the Foreign Secretary and others. On the...

Jack Straw | 532 c30 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) in pr...

Speaker | 532 c29 (Link to this contribution) Order. Understandably, there is wide interest in the Prime Minister's statement. If I am to accommod...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 532 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I join in the praise from the Prime Minister for the magnificent performance of the British armed fo...

Ed Miliband | 532 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) May I start by thanking the Prime Minister for his statement? Let me join him in paying tribute to t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) First, may I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks in response to my statement? He is ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c23-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on Libya. When we met here on that F...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c30 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. It is very important that when people are looking at the humanitarian plan...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c40 (Link to this contribution) I will look very carefully at what my hon. Friend says, because he has been pursuing this issue with...

Lord Tyrie | 532 c40 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister knows, I have called for several years for an inquiry into rendition, but I ha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c40 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I see all these issues as being linked. Just as we want to see greater democracy,...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) Musa Kusa is helping the police with their inquiries into, for instance, the Yvonne Fletcher case, a...

Pete Wishart | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) We in the Scottish National party join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to the brave men and wom...

Martin Horwood | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) I strongly welcome the Prime Minister's statement, especially in relation to the Gibson inquiry, whi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, I do not subscribe to this idea that because we cannot fix every problem ...

Mark Durkan | 532 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has spoken of hope across the wider region following events in Libya. Will both t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) As I said, what Sir Peter Gibson will be able to do is call for papers and people, and question peop...

John Baron | 532 c39 (Link to this contribution) What does the Prime Minister believe to be the lessons from our intervention when it comes to any po...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c38 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I feel that this is an extremely important issue for the bilateral relationship...

Andrew Rosindell | 532 c38 (Link to this contribution) I think that the whole House will be celebrating the end of the monstrous Gaddafi regime. Will the P...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the timetable is realistic. The key issue is whether we have faith in the NTC. I have...

Geraint Davies | 532 c38 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and the end—hopefully—of Gaddafi, but given that we are in ...

Frank Roy | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) Has an estimation been made of when British oil workers will be allowed to return to their vital job...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) I do not have an estimation, but it is in Libya's interests that the production of oil gets back to ...

David Rutley | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) Like other Members, I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister on the leadership he has shown i...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comments. I think that there will be a big role for the Arab Leag...

Hugh Bayley | 532 c38 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is absolutely right to stress that the political future of Libya needs to be dete...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c38 (Link to this contribution) I was very encouraged that at the Paris meeting there were a number of African leaders strongly supp...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and we have seen, particularly in Egypt, the importance of protec...

Mark Pritchard | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) For the new constitution of Libya to be legitimate, and indeed sustainable, is it not the case that ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will do that. First, it is important to get this into perspective: we should bear it in ...

Andrew Miller | 532 c37 (Link to this contribution) May I follow the point on migration raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (M...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that a lot of people have said, ““We don't want another Iraq,”” b...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c36 (Link to this contribution) First, let me put the hon. Lady right on one thing: there is a rule that Ministers cannot, willy-nil...

Jane Ellison | 532 c36 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Prime Minister's statement. Many of our constituents have probably said over...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c36 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend speaks with considerable knowledge, not least because rather against my w...

Caroline Lucas | 532 c36 (Link to this contribution) Has the Prime Minister reviewed Cabinet Office papers to ascertain whether Tony Blair personally aut...

Rory Stewart | 532 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) The most impressive aspect of this intervention is the Libyan pride in what Libyans see as a Libyan ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c35 (Link to this contribution) Far be it from me to join the hon. Gentleman in attacking the last Government. To be fair, I think i...

David Winnick | 532 c35 (Link to this contribution) No one will be sorry to see the end of Gaddafi's criminal regime, which was deeply involved in inter...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c34 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he says and for his kind comments. My understanding is tha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. What I would say about doctrine is that if yo...

Bernard Jenkin | 532 c35 (Link to this contribution) May I commend my right hon. Friend for acting in a way that vindicates his policy of Britain acting ...

Tony Lloyd | 532 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister rightly said that we would urge that there be no de-Ba'athification process in Li...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c34 (Link to this contribution) We will certainly make available our advice on those issues if it is wanted. In Paris, Chairman Jali...

Jo Swinson | 532 c34 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the progress of the Libyan people and the success of the United Nations' principle of the ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c34 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important point, and I think one of the best ways to do that is to work with ...

Andrew Bridgen | 532 c42 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has indicated that the British Government is planning to play a role in the vital...

Andrew Love | 532 c43 (Link to this contribution) I understand that it is indeed early days for the new Libya, but will the Prime Minister say a littl...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c43 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for what he said. The key is building up—and my right hon. Frie...

Ben Wallace | 532 c44 (Link to this contribution) The last Government consistently told us that the whole reason for working more closely with Libya w...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. What we are doing at the moment is taking through part...

Nick Raynsford | 532 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister rightly emphasised that President Assad of Syria has lost all legitimacy, that he...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c42 (Link to this contribution) That is an ingenious question. The point is that we should wait and see what it is the Libyans want ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c43 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the right hon. Gentleman is that it is a series of permanent conversations, particular...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c44 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. Hopefully, with a new Government in Libya, we shall be able to see how m...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) I think we should act with others, and in a way that maximises our influence. What has happened amon...

Rehman Chishti | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) The international community has come to the conclusion that the Assad regime in Syria has become an ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) Of course that information is valuable and, as I have said, we should not be naive and think we are ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right to draw attention to the risks involved in moving from a situation in ...

Tobias Ellwood | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Prime Minister's resolve on this issue. He is right to stress that it is for the Libya...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) Certainly we will make available our advice, services and help for the new Libya. As I have said, we...

Madeleine Moon | 532 c40 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has rightly praised the professionalism, skills and ethos of the 2,300 service pe...

William Bain | 532 c42 (Link to this contribution) Although Libya is the second richest African nation in terms of gross domestic product per capita, i...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 532 c42 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. We are trying to change the entire European neighbourh...

Sajid Javid | 532 c45 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on the leadership role played by him and his team, but does he agr...

Keith Vaz | 532 c34 (Link to this contribution) May I join others in commending the Prime Minister's role in these issues? He will know that there a...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 532 c43 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's actions, saving many lives in Libya, have been totally vindicated. So that th...

Lord McCabe | 532 c41 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister has suggested, some of the rebels have an al-Qaeda past. We all want good rela...

Subjects

Armed forces Assets Armed conflict Finance Intelligence services Politics and government Terrorism United Nations Torture UN resolutions NATO Reconstruction Libya Gaddafi, Muammar al Megrahi, Abdelbasit Ali Mohmed Fletcher, Yvonne

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