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UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Jon Trickett

Answering member

David Rutley

Department

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 cc1075-1086

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

I am grateful to the parliamentary authorities for allowing this debate to take place. It might be said that the events under discussion took place a long time ago, but I am going to argue that they are relevant to this day. I want to speak principally about the events...

Member

Jon Trickett (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 c1077

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

My hon. Friend is making an important speech. Nobody who heard President Allende’s last speech in Chile as the bombs fell on the palace will ever forget his voice or his words.

As my hon. Friend has explained, Chile was the first place where the Chicago school of economics—Milton Friedman and...

Member

Richard Burgon (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 c1078

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

My hon. Friend is of course right. Famously, the Chicago boys, as they became known in Chile, were those in the economics department of the University of Chicago who developed a reactionary theory about how economies ought to be managed. It was implemented first in Chile, as my hon. Friend...

Member

Jon Trickett (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 cc1078-9

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

I commend the hon. Gentleman for bringing this debate forward. I spoke to him beforehand, and he knows what I will say. It is important to put on record that in 2022, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom reported an increase in antisemitic social media posts and media publications...

Member

Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 c1079

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I have spoken in this House about antisemitism, and I have been the victim of antisemitism, because we have Jewish blood in my family. I have even been to Leeds court as the victim of antisemitic behaviour. Nobody feels more strongly about...

Member

Jon Trickett (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 cc1079-1081

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

My hon. Friend has shared examples of chilling sounds from that coup. I would like to take this opportunity to ask him to share his memories of a very inspiring sound from Chile that the junta sought to silence, and that is the sound of the progressive folk singer Victor...

Member

Richard Burgon (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 c1081

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

I do not want to detain the House for too long, but Victor Jara was a great folk hero. He chose to put his particular skills of singing and playing music at the disposal of the people, fighting for a better world and a better Chile. He was then taken...

Member

Jon Trickett (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 cc1081-2

House

House of Commons

UK-Chile Relations and 50th Anniversary of Coup in Chile

I congratulate the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) on securing this debate and on sharing his lived experiences and sincerely held views. I assure you, Mr Deputy Speaker, Members and my Parliamentary Private Secretary that I do not intend to speak until 5.30, but I will reply to the...

Member

David Rutley (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

14 September 2023

Reference

737 cc1082-6

House

House of Commons

DEATH OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE

That this House notes the death of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, former dictator of Chile; regrets that he never faced trial for human rights abuses or the terror he caused in many countries in South America; notes that he also escaped prosecution on charges of corruption, tax evasion and cocaine smuggling;...

Primary sponsor

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Type

Early day motions

Date

11 December 2006

Reference

458

House

House of Commons

General Pinochet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total public expenditure was on the arrest and detention of General Pinochet.

Asked by

Mike Penning (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 February 2006

For answer on

9 February 2006

Answered on

2 May 2006

The total cost to public funds of the extradition case of Senator Pinochet was £3,857,108.58. The breakdown of this is as follows:1. Total costs incurred by the Home Office: £670,588.82, comprising:"Treasury Solicitor's fees £63,150.00*""Disbursements (mainly counsel's fees) £292,385.93*""Costs of the Kingdom of Belgium and Amnesty International £155,081.68""Costs of medical examination on 5 January 2000 £11,751.25""Responding to public correspondence (this covers staff costs where letters were handled in house and Central Office of Information fees where letters were contracted out) £10,941.05""Staff costs (estimated) £165,778.91*"Of these two amounts £28,500.00 was recovered from Senator Pinochet under costs orders made against Senator Pinochet by the High Court.2. Total costs incurred by the Crown Prosecution Service: £676,691.00, comprising:"Counsel's fees £425,077.00""Staff costs (estimated) £137,055.00""Other costs (interpreters, travel and subsistence and photocopying) £114,559.00"3. Total costs incurred by the legal secretariat to the law officers: £60,000.00, comprising:"Staff costs (estimated) £60,000.00"4. Total costs incurred by the Lord Chancellor's Department: £1,209,775.05:The Law Lords ordered that Senator Pinochet's costs should be met from central funds for the first two hearings before the House of Lords in the unusual circumstances of the case. The costs paid from central funds were as follows:"for the first hearing in the House of Lords £270,935.89; and""for the application to set aside the judgment following the first hearing in the House of Lords £151,361.30."The costs of those divisional court hearings in which Senator Pinochet was successful or which did not proceed, and the costs of the committal proceedings in Bow Street magistrates court from 27 September to 1 October 1999, were also ordered to be paid from central funds. The costs of these hearings were £787,477.86.All these costs were ordered to be paid under Section 16 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, and they fall to be paid out of the Lord Chancellor's Department's portion of central funds.Senator Pinochet received no legal aid funding in any of the proceedings against him.5. Treasury Solicitor's fees: £100,053.76, comprising:"Amicus Curiae (costs and disbursements including counsel's fees): £71,029.00""Other costs and disbursements: £29,024.76"6. Total security costs: £1,200,000.00:"Responsibility for Senator Pinochet's protection and detention were the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police. For security reasons, it has long been the practice of successive Government's not to provide information about police operations relating to protection.""The costs incurred by Surrey police relating to general policing and public order matters in relation to Senator Pinochet's residence in Wentworth were £1,200,000.00."All of the above figures include value added tax where appropriate.

Date

2 May 2006

Reference

50528; 445 c1410-2W;445 c1410-2W

House

House of Commons

Money Laundering

(2) if he will undertake an inquiry to establish whether banks in (a) the UK and (b) Crown Dependencies offered their facilities to General Pinochet to evade taxes and launder money.

Asked by

Austin Mitchell (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 February 2006

Reference

50569; 442 c1553-4W;442 c1553-4W

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has held with the government of Chile concerning the prosecution of General Pinochet and other officials of the 1973 to 1990 regime; what assistance has been offered for forensic research; and if he will make a...

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2005

Reference

432 c1228W; 224588

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contacts the Government has had with General Augustus Pinochet since 1990 concerning military relations with Chile.

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 February 2005

Reference

207697; 430 c1175W

House

House of Commons

TRIAL OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET

That this House welcomes the decision by a Santiago court that former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, is to stand trial for atrocities committed during his 17-year regime in Chile; resents his countless efforts to plead ill health when faced with each legal hurdle in the campaign to bring him to...

Primary sponsor

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Type

Early day motions

Date

21 December 2004

Reference

444

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 01/1400

Material relating to the medical condition of Senator Augusto Pinochet Uguarte. Includes report by the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford, letter from the Embassy of Belgium, various reports by the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of Brussels, reports by various Spanish physicians...

Deposited by

Home Office

Type

Deposited papers

Date

4 October 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1400

House

House of Commons

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what monitoring of the legal proceedings against General Pinochet in Chile is being undertaken by his Department.

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 June 2001

Reference

370 c165W; 1051

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to public funds was of the extradition case of Senator Pinochet. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Linda Perham (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 May 2001

For answer on

8 May 2001

Answered on

8 May 2001

Ms Perham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost to public funds was of the extradition case of Senator Pinochet. [160723] Mr. Straw: Four countries (Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland) sought Senator Pinochet's extradition under the European Convention on Extradition. The final and total cost to public funds of handling these requests was £3,857,108.58. The breakdown of this is as follows: Costs Incurred by the Home Office: £670,588.82 Treasury Solicitor's fees: £63,150.000{1} Disbursements (mainly Counsel's fees): £292,385.93{1} Costs of the Kingdom of Belgium and Amnesty International: £155,081.68 Costs of Medical Examination on 5 January 2000: £11,751.25 Responding to public correspondence (this covers staff costs where letters were handled in house and Central Office of Information fees where letters were contracted out): £10,941.05 Staff Costs (estimated): £165,778.91 {1} Of these two amounts £28,500.00 was recovered from Senator Pinochet under costs orders made against Senator Pinochet by the High Court. Costs Incurred by the Crown Prosecution Service: £676,691.00 Counsel's fees: £425,077.00 Staff Costs (estimated): £137,055.00 Other Costs (interpreters, travel and subsistence and photocopying): £114,559.00 Costs Incurred by the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers: £60,000.00 Staff Costs (estimated): £60,000.00 Costs Incurred by the Lord Chancellor's Department: £1,209,775.05 The Law Lords ordered that Senator Pincohet's costs should be met from Central Funds for the first two hearings before the House of Lords in the unusual circumstances of the case. The costs paid from Central Funds were as follows: for the first hearing in the House of Lords: £270,935.89; and for the application to set aside the judgment following the first hearing in the House of Lords: £151,361.30 The costs of those Divisional court hearings in which Senator Pinochet was successful or which did not proceed, and the costs of the committal proceedings in Bow Street Magistrates court from 27 September to 1 October 1999, were also order to be paid from Central Funds. The costs of these hearings were £787,477.86. All these costs were ordered to be paid under Section 16 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, and they fall to be paid out of the Lord Chancellor's Department's portion of central funds. Senator Pinochet received no legal aid funding in any of the proceedings against him. Treasury Solicitor's Fees: £100,053.76 Amicus Curiae (costs and disbursements including Counsel's fees): £71,029.00 Other costs and disbursements: £29,024.76 Security Costs: £1,200,000.00 Responsibility for Senator Pinochet's protection and detention were the responsibility of the Metropolitan police. For security reasons, it has long been the practice of successive Governments not to provide information about police operations relating to protection. The costs incurred by Surrey police relating to general policing and public order matters in relation to Senator Pinochet's residence in Wentworth were £1,200,000.00. All these figures include Value Added Tax where appropriate.

Date

8 May 2001

Reference

368 c74-5W; 160723

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the records of medical examinations carried out on Augusto Pinochet prepared for his Department have been made available to (a) military and (b) legal authorities in Chile. - Inc ref to report in Library.

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 April 2001

Reference

158977; 367 c381W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what criteria Dr Michael Denham was selected to assess the capacity of Augusto Pinochet to stand trial; which other consultants were considered; and what objections were made to his appointment.

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 April 2001

Reference

158976; 367 c381W

House

House of Commons

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