Results 1-20 of 55 for iraq speaker:Julian Brazier

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: ...to have lost it. Nevertheless, I want to focus on the crisis facing the TA as a result of the deeply unwelcome decision that has been made by the Government. At one point during the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, reservists—most of them Territorials—accounted for one fifth of the force in Iraq and for one eighth of the force in Afghanistan. Given that our reserves are...

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Julian Brazier: ...the moment—16 Terroritorials and one air reservist. I will not repeat the statistics showing the large role that the reserve forces, despite their proportionately small size, have played in Iraq and Afghanistan, and earlier in the Balkans. Instead, I wish to focus on how an imaginative, forward-looking Government could make more use of reserve forces to square the resource circle....

Business of the House: Defence in the UK (9 Oct 2008) has video

Julian Brazier: ..., that 79 per cent. is not a good enough approval rating, but it is not just a case of whether the civilian community approves of the armed forces who are taking the risks in Afghanistan and Iraq; it is a much wider issue. People with very little exposure to the armed forces are much less likely to encourage a son or daughter to join, and, to put it bluntly, less likely to support...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Helmand Province (17 Jun 2008)

Julian Brazier: My hon. Friend is making a compelling case. Does he agree that there is a sad degree of repetition in this debate? Just a few years ago, when we had the debates on the invasion of Iraq, we were repeatedly assured that DFID would be there, just behind the armed forces, and that reconstruction would take place in Iraq. Is it not sad to hear exactly the same story about what is taking place in...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (2 Jun 2008)

Julian Brazier: ...of State for Defence how many (a) gallantry and meritorious service medals of each type and (b) campaign medals have been awarded to members of the Territorial Army in respect of their service in Iraq and Afghanistan; and how many members of the Territorial Army have received campaign medals for service in both countries.

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Julian Brazier: ..., besides making a remarkable contribution in dealing with both Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of 9/11, also provides highly effective combat brigades and fast jet fighter squadrons for use in Iraq? May I suggest that the basic lesson that we can learn from America is that an organisation is most successful—the National Guard is the only part of the American armed forces that is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Julian Brazier: ...welcome, as have other Members, the Royal British Legion's campaign to focus on it. We have to ask ourselves why we do not have homecoming parades in very many places when our soldiers return from Iraq or Afghanistan. Although it is a factor that action in those theatres does not command overwhelming public support—indeed, in the case of Iraq, it is positively unpopular—that is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Julian Brazier: ...a remarkable record on deployments: out of an organisation that is barely 30,000 strong—including recruits and undeployable people, such as those in the Officer Training Corps—13,000 have gone to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past five years. Let us remember that it was deployed to Iraq only a couple of years after a big deployment associated with the Kosovo operation. A...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Julian Brazier: ...by the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell), who until very recently was the leader of the Liberal Democrats? He said that he believed that our debt to Iraq had been discharged, and that we should withdraw now. Will the hon. Gentleman clarify his party's position on this matter?

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Airport Security (10 Jul 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...and in meetings, with the British Airports Authority about security at terminals, focusing on one central concern: that queues for security apparatus are seen as targets of choice by terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans), I happened to fly—to America—a week or two after the August incident, and I share the concerns of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Counter-terrorism (2 Jul 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...all three incidents. I wish to raise a narrow issue of airport security, on which I have had a series of exchanges with BAA. Queues of people waiting for security apparatus are choice targets in Iraq and a number of other areas. With the holiday season almost upon us, may I urge the Home Secretary to tell airport operators that allowing large queues to develop at security apparatus...

Territorial Army (12 Jun 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...weapons set-up at each TA centre a company, but it will not have a critical mass for the worthwhile training of officers. If a group goes off with its regular-service counterparts to Afghanistan or Iraq—there will not be another deployment of that sort to Iraq—but never as a formed company, no TA officer will get an opportunity to command in the field. If TA officers are...

Territorial Army (12 Jun 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...have been deployed to war zones, and they have performed admirably. In Kosovo, almost 10 per cent. of those deployed were from the reserve forces, and reservists made up one fifth of the Army in Iraq and one eighth in Afghanistan at the peak in 2004. Lieutenant General McColl told us that the situation has now stabilised with about 1,200 being called up each year for duties in Iraq and...

Territorial Army (12 Jun 2007)

Julian Brazier: Yes, I share the concern expressed by my hon. Friend, who, of course, has been a distinguished serving reservist in the past two years in Iraq with the Royal Naval Reserve, which the group hopes to consider in its next report. It is interesting that the measures that have been most successful in preparing reservists for operational service are those whereby they are handled separately. I am...

Territorial Army (12 Jun 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...recruitment and wastage is startling. The wastage rate in the national guard is well below two thirds of that in the army reserve, and despite the fact that the guard has suffered heavy losses in Iraq—16 people from the Louisiana brigade, which I know well, were killed during its deployment there, which, coincidentally, happened at the same time as hurricane Katrina—its website...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East (25 Jul 2006)

Julian Brazier: ...Hezbollah, financed by Iran? The Lebanese Government have done very well disarming a number of other militia groups. Given that we have so far been unable to disarm the militias in Afghanistan or Iraq, is it right that Israel should be allowed to bully that entire country and put it back 20 years, in the words of one Israeli Minister, in order to get back at Hezbollah, the real villains?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (26 Jun 2006)

Julian Brazier: Whatever the time scale for our armed forces in Basra, the Secretary of State's earlier comments on possible replacements for the Snatch Land Rover in Basra and elsewhere in Iraq are welcome, provided they lead to early action. I urge the right hon. Gentleman to consider the grievous gap in our capability for clearing mines for light forces, which in practice means most of our forces in Iraq,...

Written Answers — Defence: Mine Clearance (21 Jun 2006)

Julian Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what mine clearance equipment is available to Light Forces; what mine clearance equipment is deployed in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq; how many mine clearance projects have been completed in each of the last three years, broken down by country; and how many projects are pending, broken down by country.

Orders of the Day: Clause 116 — Referral of case following investigation by service or civilian police (22 May 2006)

Julian Brazier: ...about it, but I will have to describe it in fairly general terms because the individual victim does not want to be identified. The case involved a soldier who had allegations brought against him in Iraq of a serious sexual assault on a female. His immediate officer and, subsequently, commanding officer examined the allegations. The allegations were supported by witness statements that were...

Orders of the Day: Clause 116 — Referral of case following investigation by service or civilian police (22 May 2006)

Julian Brazier: ...First, I want to try to show in general terms the damage that it does to the way in which the chain of command operates, and secondly, I want to consider it specifically in the context of events in Iraq and, potentially, other theatres. On the chain of command, Lord Boyce commented: "we interfere with the unique linkage between the commanding officer and his men at our peril." —[...