Ministerial statement on Thursday, 27 November 2014, in the House of Commons, led by Michael Fallon.

Afghanistan

Statement on Afghanistan.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 588 cc1117-1130
Session: 2014-15
Department: Ministry of Defence
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Michael Fallon | 588 cc1118-1120 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on Afghanistan.
Let me begin by offer...; Lord Coaker | 588 cc1120-2 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement and for his courtesy in informi...; Michael Fallon | 588 cc1121-3 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the shadow Defence Secretary both for what he said and for the tone in which he ...; Liam Fox | 588 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
As someone who was looking at the scale of the draw-down at an early stage, I ask my right hon. F...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and he is right that there is occasional criticism of the ...; Mike Gapes | 588 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
May I add my voice to that of the Secretary of State concerning the appalling terrorist attack to...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1123 (Link to this contribution)
I certainly endorse that. A huge number of people have been helping in the effort to bring peace ...; Alistair Burt | 588 cc1123-4 (Link to this contribution)
As a former Minister for Afghanistan who knows the embassy and staff there, may I, too, express m...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my right hon. Friend. Few Members of this House have as much experience as he gained in h...; Barry Gardiner | 588 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement. He will know that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
If I may, I will write to the hon. Gentleman on the details of the subsidy that is made available...; Bob Russell | 588 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
I support the Defence Secretary’s tributes in his statement, and as a constituency MP I wish to d...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1125 (Link to this contribution)
I note the tribute my hon. Friend has paid to his own unit. I could easily have singled out a who...; Paul Flynn | 588 c1125 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Defence Secretary thank and congratulate Mrs Hazel Hunt of Abergavenny, who has set up a...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1125 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to pay tribute to the work of Mrs Hunt, and I think I acknowledged the enormity of the...; Gerald Howarth | 588 c1125 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely endorse the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Al...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
I made it clear earlier that we have withdrawn our combat troops from Afghanistan and that we are...; Lord Walney | 588 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
The British armed forces have spent more than a decade fighting the Taliban, yet it seems that th...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
I have discussed with President Ghani his approach to this. There are moderate elements in the Ta...; Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 588 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
We should be proud that millions of Afghan girls are now in school and that thousands of women ar...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1126 (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly bear that in mind as we finalise the agenda and programme for the London confere...; Stephen Doughty | 588 c1127 (Link to this contribution)
I, like many other Members who have visited Afghanistan, have been protected and supported by Bri...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1127 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his first comment. The tragic event in Kabul this morning...; Julian Lewis | 588 c1127 (Link to this contribution)
Many of the specialists involved in the successful withdrawal of heavy equipment from Afghanistan...; Michael Fallon | 588 cc1127-8 (Link to this contribution)
I note what my hon. Friend says about Marchwood, of which he has been a great champion. He does n...; Jeremy Corbyn | 588 c1128 (Link to this contribution)
I pay tribute, as everyone else does and should, to the sacrifice and the loss of service people ...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1128 (Link to this contribution)
I hope the House will agree that I have not been triumphalist about the campaign. I believe the c...; Bob Stewart | 588 c1128 (Link to this contribution)
One fifth of the Royal Navy are in the Royal Marine Commandos and one quarter of Army personnel a...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1128 (Link to this contribution)
I wholly agree with my hon. Friend, who brings to the House his own military experience, and I am...; Rehman Chishti | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
I very much welcome the Defence Secretary’s statement and endorse everything he has said. The BBC...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to the heavy casualties taken by the rest of the Afghan po...; Jason McCartney | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
Among those killed in Afghanistan were constituents of mine serving in the Royal Logistic Corps, ...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who of course served in the armed forces. He makes a good point ...; John Baron | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
Most of us agreed at the time with the initial deployment to rid the country of al-Qaeda, but wha...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1129 (Link to this contribution)
I think I drew attention to the military lessons we can learn: these campaigns are best fought by...; Peter Bone | 588 c1130 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the House and keeping us so well informed, and I am ...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1130 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend for that question. I know that he, too, had close family involved in the c...; Philip Hollobone | 588 c1130 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend rightly said in his statement that the major legacy of our intervention is t...; Michael Fallon | 588 c1130 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to take on the commitment to relay what my hon. Friend has said to my right hon. Frien...
Subjects: Armed forces Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Terrorism Afghanistan
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Afghanistan

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