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Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

Alan Beith: ...their work very well at all. There are examples in some parts of the country of terrible delays in holding inquests. I am not thinking of the serious delays in inquests relating to service in Iraq or Afghanistan, which have raised separate problems; I am thinking of areas where inquests have built up because the service was not properly managed or resourced. It is therefore necessary, as...

Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

Alan Beith: ...Government can cite as likely to achieve that: the powers in relation to war and peace—the parliamentary process when this country goes to war. That is right in principle and, in the case of Iraq, actually happened. As one of those who voted against the Iraq war, I must recognise that we did have a vote in this House about it, but the idea that that will strengthen Parliament is a...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007)

Alan Beith: ...will make some reforms that can be carried out in a non-statutory way. I realise, too, that they have tried to address the serious problem of military inquests arising from Afghanistan and Iraq by giving more resources to the two coroners most affected—in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire—but that simply illustrates the creaking and ramshackle nature of the system. It is only through...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — Coroners' System and Death Certification (8 Mar 2007)

Alan Beith: ...fact that bodies and body parts were located in different jurisdictions. There has been a particular problem in the Oxfordshire jurisdiction, because almost all those killed on active service in Iraq or Afghanistan have been flown back to Brize Norton, generating a need for large numbers of inquests, some of them raising important and difficult issues, such as the need to obtain evidence...

Written Answers — Defence: Fatal Accident Inquiries (30 Nov 2006)

Alan Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence in respect of how many cases of deceased UK service personnel flown back from (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan to Scotland there have been fatal accident inquiries; and in how many cases such inquiries have not taken place.

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Military Personnel (Inquests) (29 Nov 2006)

Alan Beith: ...outcome of the recent meeting with Mr. David Johnson, US Deputy Ambassador, concerning attendance of US service personnel at the inquests of British soldiers killed in friendly fire incidents in Iraq.

Royal Assent: Intelligence and Security Committee (Annual Report) (11 Jul 2006)

Alan Beith: ...agencies in many countries, and they are generally pretty envious of the degree of co-operation and co-ordination between our services. That is working, although it can be improved. The entire Iraq experience demonstrated this point, as did the role of the Defence Intelligence Staff. The Committee has taken an ever-closer interest in defence intelligence, having been encouraged to do...

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr Alan Beith: ...and the political decisions that may effectively have been taken. Those decisions go back to neo-Conservative pressures on the Bush Administration, President Bush's false linking of 9/11 to Iraq and the Prime Minister's falsely implied linkage between al-Qaeda and Iraq. In so far as contacts were established, they do not bear the weighty substance put on them. Indeed, the Prime Minister...

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr Alan Beith: ...combine with the US in taking out Saddam's regime on grounds that could be applied to several dictators, proliferators, rogue states and failed states, including some of more immediate concern than Iraq, even on the information publicly disseminated at the time. Liberal Democrats have never challenged the Prime Minister's good faith or his conviction that what he was doing was right and in...

Lord Hutton's Report (4 Feb 2004)

Mr Alan Beith: ...to the JIC assessment that "al-Qaida and associated groups . . . represent by far the greatest terrorist threat to Western interests, and that threat would be heightened by military action against Iraq." That was one of a number of factors to be considered, but it was not one to which Ministers alluded. The impression that they sought to give was often very different, as they suggested...

RAF Boulmer (22 Jan 2004)

Mr Alan Beith: ...a marginal benefit to be set against very large costs. Moreover, the Minister will be aware that No. 1 Air Control Centre—a deployable facility that is housed at RAF Boulmer—performed magnificently in Iraq without the need for any prior co-location with a flying base. By its mobile nature, it could obviously be housed on another station and might have the advantage of being...

Intelligence and Security Committee (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: The hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) made as lively and constructive a contribution to the debate as he has to the Foreign Affairs Committee's deliberations on Iraq. I agree with him that the work of the two Committees can be complementary. In the light of what he said about the Wilson doctrine, I have changed the order of what I was going to say to address his comments at the...

Intelligence and Security Committee (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: ...cannot keep a careful watch on those trouble spots, and keep between the nations that ally themselves for intelligence purposes, we shall not get other sorts of warning. We have much work to do on Iraq. We deal with the dossiers in paragraphs 81 and 82. The Foreign Affairs Committee discussions will give us much more detail about who said what to whom and when. However, we left hon....

G8 Summit (4 Jun 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: ...intervened in Sierra Leone to restore an elected Government, the Americans intervened in Grenada, and—much more controversially—the Prime Minister now rests much of his case relating to Iraq on the removal of that ghastly regime. Is it not very difficult to see what separates those suffering under brutal regimes in Zimbabwe, Burma and North Korea from those suffering in the...

Global Terrorism/Iraq (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: ...can give to terrorist movements will have to be addressed by the international community, which will have to be brought and held together in a war against terrorism. Our strategy in relation to Iraq needs to assist that war against terrorism, not undermine it.

Iraq (Security Council Resolution) (7 Nov 2002)

Mr Alan Beith: ...that the Foreign Secretary and British officials have made on the resolution. I share the hope for a successful outcome leading to inspection getting under way with the clear intention of removing Iraq's programme for weapons of mass destruction. Recognising that it was Kofi Annan who referred to the threat of force being essential to the success of diplomacy, which we know to be true in...

Bill Presented: Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Bill (2 Sep 1998)

Mr Alan Beith: ...in opposition to other regimes—not terrorism. Even for Governments with which I disagree, I do not want groups in Britain planning bombs that would kill and maim hundreds of civilians even in Iraq, let alone anywhere else. I do not want terrorism planned in this country. However, the position is difficult with regard to countries where there is a civil war or organised military...

Anthrax (24 Mar 1998)

Mr Alan Beith: ...stand that Britain took on restarting the weapons inspection system effectively. Is he aware that there is evidence that, during the 1980s, before this Government's time, anthrax was obtained by Iraq from western US sources, and that development of the culture medium and some of the training of Iraqi scientists may have taken place in Britain? Will he consult his right hon. Friends, to...

Orders of the Day — Bank of England (Amendment) Bill (28 Jan 1994)

Mr Alan Beith: ...Shared responsibility is the death of accountability. We can see that theme running through all of the stories about accountability in every kind of field, whether it is central banking or arms to Iraq. If several people are responsible, they can all say, "It was not me, it was him … he didn't tell me … he sent me the memo, but I did not fully appreciate its contents." When...