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Business of the House: Easter Adjournment (2 Apr 2009) has video

Graham Allen: ...did seek to hold the Government to account. The two largest rebellions ever within a governing party occurred six years ago but, despite them, Parliament decided to support President Bush's war in Iraq. The last of our troops are coming home now, so it is a good time to ask the following question: what is the profit from our victory? Some 179 of the troops' comrades have died, as have...

Business of the House: Easter Adjournment (2 Apr 2009) has video

Graham Allen: ...managed to fight the English civil war and execute the King. Its successor was not so dramatic, but it forced the Executive to convene the real Parliament to debate the slide into war against Iraq. In doing so, it opened up issues that are still pertinent to the House in general, and the possibility of a serious debate on the war in Iraq that would not pick over the bones of who was right...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Wars: Parliamentary Approval (8 Jan 2007)

Graham Allen: The Leader of the House knows that since the beginning of the Iraq war, members of parties in all parts of the House have signed Remaining Orders which highlight the difficult situation facing any Government in consulting any legislature in any democracy about going to war. Will he take it from me that many of us appreciate the thought that he is giving to the matter, and that there must be...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Troop Withdrawal (11 Dec 2006)

Graham Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will submit for the approval of both Houses of Parliament any plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq before those plans are implemented; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (5 Dec 2006)

Graham Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the likely consequences of a British withdrawal from Iraq on citizens who have helped build democratic institutions in that country.

Orders of the Day — European Union Bill (9 Feb 2005)

Mr Graham Allen: ...a deal between various Governments, and have turned it into a constitution. Some of us favour a written constitution. We think that written constitutions are so good that they should not just go to Iraq or Europe, but to the UK as well. But will the right hon. Gentleman accept that there is now a contradiction, because instead of trying to win people to an inspiring written constitution...

Prime Minister (Direct Election) (11 May 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...to account. Self-evidently, that cannot be done through a Parliament that is controlled by the Executive, as was demonstrated last year when we were unable even to recall ourselves to debate the Iraq war. That power was held by the very office that we sought to discuss and to influence. It must, therefore, be made accountable to the British people by direct election, and that is what the...

Tyrannical Regimes (26 Mar 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...party in modern parliamentary history: 140 Labour Members of Parliament. We sought to dissuade the Prime Minister from joining President Bush's premature, counter-productive and premeditated war on Iraq. We failed, but those who won the vote also failed. Lessons must now be learned by all of us. Humility is not a quality for which politicians are renowned, but perhaps all of us ought to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (11 Nov 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: If he will make a statement on the situation in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (11 Nov 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: The Foreign Secretary will know better than anyone that there was some dispute over the legal basis of the invasion of Iraq, but I know that he takes second place to no one in his desire to rebuild both the global coalition against terrorism and the United Nations. Can he tell the House whether—in case we were ever to take on a murdering butcher in future—he is working on...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Afghanistan (15 Oct 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: ...he agree that it is very important, in Afghanistan, that we are seen to be making a democratic infrastructure work? That is especially important, given the possibility that it may be extended into Iraq. We have been involved in Afghanistan for a longer period, and people need to see progress in respect of democracy there if they are to have faith that we can make progress in Iraq. Will he...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Iraq (16 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what support her Department gives to post-war reconstruction of Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Democracy (Afghanistan/Iraq) (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: What improvements in democracy the Department has helped with in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq since 11 September 2001.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Democracy (Afghanistan/Iraq) (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: ...for global military intervention to spread democracy, put forward by the neo-Conservatives in the United States, but that unless we actually achieve a development of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq, we will reinforce the view of many people that we have adopted a pre-emptive strike attitude to many countries that we do not like? That will in turn lead to an undermining of democracy and...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: ...the (a) membership, (b) previous positions held by members, (c) terms of employment, (d) responsibilities, (e) line management and (f) funding of (i) the Coalition Information Centre and (ii) the Iraq Communications Committee; and what access each is given to intelligence and security information.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (7 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Prime Minister when he last discussed with the US Administration the force levels required (a) to provide internal security in Iraq and (b) to allow British and American forces to provide for their own protection; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (7 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Prime Minister when he last discussed with the US Administration the duration of the mission of British and US forces in the occupation of Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (7 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Prime Minister whether he has made proposals to the US Administration for the United Nations to assume greater responsibilities for the reconstruction and internal security of Iraq and for the creation of a new Iraqi Government and representative political institutions.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (2 Jul 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he was consulted in advance of the decision by the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs to allow Iraqis to keep firearms; and what proposals he has to reduce the availability of firearms and ammunition in Iraq.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (30 Jun 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many casualties there have been in the Iraq conflict, broken down by (a) British military personnel, (b) Iraqi civilians and (c) other categories.