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Legislative debate on Tuesday, 13 December 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Mark Hoban.

Prevention of Nuclear Proliferation

Financial Restrictions (Iran) Order 2011. Debate on a motion to approve. Agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
537 c686-709 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Financial Restrictions (Iran) Order 2011
Monday, 21 November 2011
Statutory instruments
House of Commons
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 537 c697 (Link to this contribution) Order. There will now be a five-minute limit on speeches, with the usual injury time for interventio...
Jonathan Edwards | 537 c687 (Link to this contribution) The Minister might be about to answer my question, but what are other nation states doing in respons...
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Mark Hoban | 537 c687 (Link to this contribution) I will outline some of the action taken by several countries to exert pressure on the Iranian regime...
Mark Hoban | 537 c686 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the Financial Restrictions (Iran) Order 2011 (S.I., 2011, No. 2775), dated 21 No...
Mark Hoban | 537 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we continue the twin-track approach—of engagement and challenge—that the Govern...
Ben Wallace | 537 c695-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend would have a point if it was not for the fact that at the moment, the Iranians need o...
Jack Straw | 537 c696 (Link to this contribution) May I, as one of the three Foreign Ministers who got the arrangement going in the middle of 2003, un...
Paul Flynn | 537 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) The threat of war is far more serious than an increase in oil prices. The effect of a war, particula...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I sat in the Chamber in the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, when the House i...
Martin Horwood | 537 c700 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making some interesting points, but I am not clear whether he opposes a toughe...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c699 (Link to this contribution) In this brief debate, we should think very carefully about the long-term implications of the path on...
Jonathan Edwards | 537 c699 (Link to this contribution) To add to that point, does the hon. Gentleman agree that the last thing we should try to do now is d...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) What I want is engagement and recognition, first, of the human rights abuses in Iran, which are clea...
Robert Halfon | 537 c701 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate because, contrary to what has just been said, I believe that Iran is in essenc...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c701 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned nuclear weapons. Does he not have concerns that Israel has 200 nuclear ...
Robert Halfon | 537 c701 (Link to this contribution) I am happy for any nuclear convention to reduce nuclear weapons in the middle east, but the crucial ...
Mike Freer | 537 c701 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. May I point out that it is not Israel which has threatened to wipe its ...
Robert Halfon | 537 c701-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who is a strong supporter of Israel, is exactly right. The one difference between I...
John McDonnell | 537 c702 (Link to this contribution) I, too, preface my remarks by stating that I have been a consistent opponent of the regime in Iran. ...
Brian Binley | 537 c702 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John McDonnell | 537 c703 (Link to this contribution) I would, but we are short of time, so if the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will not. I am sure tha...
Rory Stewart | 537 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) In the debate about Iran, we tend to be presented with two pictures of the country: either it repres...
Mark Hoban | 537 c689 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of the order is not to enable debate of the broader issues of engagement with Iran, but ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c689 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been speaking for about 10 minutes, during which he has come from expressing concer...
Mark Hoban | 537 c688 (Link to this contribution) The Government bore in mind when making their decision the strong concerns raised by the IAEA in its...
Ben Wallace | 537 c688 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend perhaps answer a technical question relating to the Treasury's responsibilities? ...
Mark Hoban | 537 c687-8 (Link to this contribution) Given the UK's importance as a financial centre and its interconnectedness, there was an opportunity...
Mark Hoban | 537 c687 (Link to this contribution) I will finish this paragraph and then give way. That includes the US and Canada, which implemented ...
Bob Stewart | 537 c695 (Link to this contribution) The only question I would ask is: would not the Iranians consider it to be part of the irritation fa...
Mark Hoban | 537 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress. This is a time-limited debate, and in looking at the number of Members...
Speaker | 537 c694 (Link to this contribution) As earlier, I ask hon. Members to look to see how many others are standing. I think that there are a...
Ben Wallace | 537 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) May I declare an interest, as co-chair of the all-party group on Iran? I apologise to you, Mr Deputy...
Brian Binley | 537 c695 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and I shall be very brief. Does not my hon. Friend agree that...
Speaker | 537 c691 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that the debate can continue until no later than 6.48. After the shadow Minister ...
Chris Leslie | 537 c691-2 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister has outlined, events in Iran in recent months and weeks have been deeply concerning....
Jack Straw | 537 c692 (Link to this contribution) May I say now what I should have said in my first intervention? I declare my interest as a co-chairm...
Chris Leslie | 537 c692-4 (Link to this contribution) I understand my right hon. Friend's point, which brings me neatly to the five questions that I wish ...
John Baron | 537 c707 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the Iranians have a slightly longer memory than just 12 years. They remember our su...
Brian Binley | 537 c707 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recognise that we have approached the Iranians bearing gifts in that we proscrib...
John Baron | 537 c706 (Link to this contribution) I rise to suggest to the Minister not only that it is questionable whether sanctions are working but...
Andrew Percy | 537 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) That is a different debate for a different day, but I would rather that nuclear weapons were in the ...
John Baron | 537 c706-7 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that my hon. Friend was not listening. I did not say that sanctions made the regime more...
Robert Halfon | 537 c706 (Link to this contribution) I am incredibly grateful for my hon. Friend's thoughtful remarks, although I come from a completely ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c705 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is not trying to denigrate anybody, but unfortunately the histo...
Andrew Percy | 537 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the motion and the words of the Minister. Some of the shadow Minister's comments a...
Andrew Percy | 537 c705 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that anybody wants to see conflict in Iran; more importantly, none of us wants Iran t...
Denis MacShane | 537 c707 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Baron | 537 c707 (Link to this contribution) No, because we are very short of time—I apologise. I suggest that we give diplomacy a greater chanc...
Mark Hoban | 537 c708-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress and conclude fairly promptly because there is a time limit on this debate. ...
Brian Binley | 537 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me say at the outset, in order to set my hon. Friend the Minister's mind at rest, that I fully s...
Ben Wallace | 537 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely true that Russia and China often need to know that the west is united before they m...
Jack Straw | 537 c688 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, but with great respect, I am still rather perplexed. W...
Mark Hoban | 537 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting and wide-ranging debate. As anyone listening to it will have recognised...
Paul Flynn | 537 c686 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a danger, if we push Iran too hard, of it expelling the IAEA inspectors from the countr...
Mark Hoban | 537 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) We are acting under powers that were put on the statute book by the previous Government. My hon. Fri...
Jack Straw | 537 c687 (Link to this contribution) I sought to intervene on the Minister when he started talking about other countries. One of the thin...
Ben Wallace | 537 c695 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. They do so less and less each day, and that is one of the major regrets for someone like...
Subjects
Decommissioning Arms control Finance Nuclear weapons Nuclear power Proliferation Sequestration of assets Iran
Legislation
Financial Restrictions (Iran) Order 2011
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