Results 1-8 of 8 for iraq speaker:Roger Berry

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (29 Jan 2009)

Roger Berry: ...but I thought that those meetings were a better way of spending our time than listening to speeches as bland and general as mine was. We met with representatives with Iran, Russia, Thailand, China, Iraq, Serbia, South Korea, Kenya, Turkey and Pakistan—a varied collection, but all countries that wanted to engage with us and with which we wanted to engage. Without exception, all those...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (27 Mar 2008)

Roger Berry: ...perfectly frank: the position on arms export control policy and its transparency and accountability are light years ahead of what they were 11 years ago at the time of the Scott report on arms to Iraq—and to Iran, as we discovered. This country has made enormous progress in bringing the arms trade under some kind of effective control and scrutiny, and the Government deserve credit...

Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]: Al-Yamamah Arms Agreement (7 Feb 2007)

Roger Berry: ...that the Government deserve enormous credit for two things in relation to the matters that are the subject of our debate. The first is controlling arms exports. Before 1997, the policy was arms to Iraq and the Scott inquiry. This Government provided the first and most comprehensive overhaul of the export control regime since 1939. They are now promoting internationally an arms trade treaty...

Quadripartite Committee Reports (16 Mar 2006)

Roger Berry: ...enforcing the legislation. When it comes to the enforcement of arms sales legislation, the only thing that matters—it is not simply the most important thing—is end use. As the arms to Iraq scandal taught us, what matters is who gets the arms and what they do with them. The licence application might have said that the weapons were going to Jordan, but they ended up in Iraq. At...

Inter-Parliamentary Union (16 Jun 2005)

Roger Berry: ...on the role of Parliaments in preserving biodiversity. The third standing committee on democracy and human rights drafted a resolution on Beijing plus 10. There was also an emergency debate on Iraq, which I shall deal with in a moment. That gives hon. Members some idea of the topicality and importance of the issues debated at that assembly. In April earlier this year, at the Manila...

Inter-Parliamentary Union (15 Jul 2004)

Dr Roger Berry: ...there is a difference of opinion on the European Union within some political parties, as well as between political parties. It is a well-known fact that there have been differences of opinion about Iraq. There is value in parliamentarians being able to meet and exchange views to determine what is behind the position of their Governments, and the openness and frankness of such dialogue can...

Written Answers — Defence: Cluster Munitions (10 Apr 2002)

Dr Roger Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the loose minute Interdepartmental Committee Iran and Iraq D/DESS/12/20 dated 19 October 1988, to which countries the MOD/DESO promoted the BL755 cluster munitions; and which countries purchased the BL755 cluster munition system subsequent to promotional activity by his Department.

Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill (9 Jul 2001)

Dr Roger Berry: ...be seriously undermined. I turn now to end-use monitoring. The Scott report showed how easy it was for UK arms exports to be diverted. The subject of the report was arms that had been diverted to Iraq via Jordan. I served on the Trade and Industry Committee a couple of years later, and we considered the problem of large numbers of arms exports being diverted, via Singapore, to Iran. As I...