Results 1-20 of 83 for iraq speaker:Vincent Cable

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (25 Feb 2009) has video

Vincent Cable: May I add my condolences to the family and friends of the three servicemen who died serving our country in Iraq and Afghanistan. May I also say a few words on behalf of my party leader, my parliamentary colleagues and my party to extend our deepest sympathy to the Cameron family for the loss of their son, Ivan, this morning. Everybody in the House will have experienced bereavement, but there...

Orders of the Day: Banking Bill (14 Oct 2008) has video

Vincent Cable: ...hon. Gentleman's account of how the Conservatives warned the Labour Government for years about the problems of personal debt. We are living through what I suppose is the economic equivalent of the Iraq war. I am sure that dossiers will be produced recording who said what when—and Conservative warnings about the emerging household debt problem are very thin on the ground. I remember...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers: Iraqi Minorities (14 Jul 2008)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Government's policy is on those from Christian and other minorities in Iraq seeking asylum in the UK.

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Cost of Living (24 Jun 2008) has video

Vincent Cable: ...supply. That is complete nonsense: there is less than 2 per cent. spare capacity, and there are serious production problems in countries such as Nigeria and—because of the war—Iraq. The price rises are not due to the malicious withholding of supplies, and the Prime Minister is totally wrong to have created that impression. The other myth in circulation is that the price rises...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 Apr 2008) has video

Vincent Cable: May I begin by adding my condolences over the soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq? It was reported earlier this week that Her Majesty the Queen had cancelled her diamond wedding celebrations because it was judged inappropriate to engage in extravagance at a time of economic gloom and recession. Does the Leader of the House share my view that that demonstrates Her Majesty's unerring...

Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]: Northern Rock (12 Dec 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...amount in context so that we can make sense of such an enormous number, I simply equate it to a little bit less than the annual defence budget. Given that it is a one-off payment, we are talking about six Iraq wars. Such a sum would build a high-speed train route from London to Edinburgh, and enough money would be left to build another one to Glasgow. The sum is the equivalent of about...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan (12 Dec 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: ...reflecting the reality, acknowledged by the chiefs of staff, that British forces—including the 4,700 who were tied down at Basra airport providing cover for the continuing American presence in Iraq—are massively overstretched? The Prime Minister is absolutely right to stress the importance of development assistance and we greatly welcome that, but is it not true that the annual...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Dec 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: Given the Prime Minister's own position, he might not be wise to speculate about leadership elections. Is not the real disaster, for which he has personal responsibility, the continuing tragedy in Iraq? When he was in Basra this week, was he told that at least 40 women have been executed for personal immorality? Is that why 173 British troops have died—transferring power from the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Nov 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: We know about the defence budget, because the Prime Minister signed £5 billion-worth of cheques for the Iraq war, but is not the truth at the end of it that the troops lack adequate equipment, adequate medical care and adequate accommodation? Is not the underlying truth that where the armed forces are concerned, fundamentally, the Prime Minister is not interested and does not care?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (6 Nov 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...willing to load student tuition fees and top-up fees on to highly indebted students; they both have an obsequious relationship with the Bush Administration, which has led them to support the war in Iraq and new initiatives, such as the star wars programme; and they both sign up to a fundamentally unethical, cynical foreign policy that led them to get together at the beginning of last week...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (16 Jul 2007)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 125W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, what the estimated replacement costs of military equipment damaged and destroyed owing to use in Iraq has been since the start of the war in Iraq (a) in total and (b) for (i) tanks and other armoured vehicles, (ii) aircraft and (iii) helicopters...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (25 Jun 2007)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the replacement costs of military equipment damaged and destroyed owing to use in Iraq since the start of the war (a) in total and (b) for (i) tanks and other armoured vehicles, (ii) aircraft and (iii) helicopters.

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

Vincent Cable: ...;[ Official Report, House of Lords, 1 February 2006; Vol. 689, c. 379.] Well, we can all agree with that. One of two conclusions must emerge. The Prime Minister has done what he did in the case of Iraq, which was to exaggerate and distort the advice received from the security services; alternatively and much more alarmingly, he was right, and the Saudi authorities, who are supposed to be...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (26 Jan 2007)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent estimate he has made of the cost of (a) combat and (b) peacekeeping operations in Iraq in each year since 2005-06; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Treasury: Iraq: Reparation Payments (18 Dec 2006)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which UK (a) companies and (b) institutes have received reparation payments from the government of Iraq in each of the last three years; and how much they received.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (11 Dec 2006)

Vincent Cable: Does the Secretary of State believe that there are circumstances in which the American military could stay in Iraq but the British could leave? If so, what are they?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Pre-Budget Report (6 Dec 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...spending, especially public sector pay, must be dealt with severely in the years ahead. He has taken on board some big, expensive, open-ended public sector spending commitments: the continuing Iraq war; big defence procurement contracts, such as Eurofighter and Trident; new nuclear power; Ken Livingstone's Olympics; and ID cards. In that constrained environment, how can he guarantee that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iraq (5 Dec 2006)

Vincent Cable: What recent discussions she has had with the Government of Iraq and other Governments about war reparations.

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...challenge him to justify them. He started his speech by referring, I think with some pride, to the spending that the Government were undertaking on what he called security. That includes the war in Iraq. We have a different perspective on that, because we regard the £4 billion spent on that war as having been wasted. He may say, "That's water under the bridge. Let's look at the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (30 Oct 2006)

Vincent Cable: What assessment he has made of the prevalence of mental illness among servicemen returning from combat duty in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.