Results 1-20 of 33 for iraq speaker:David Chaytor

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (23 Feb 2009)

David Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost to the public purse of the UK's involvement in military action in Iraq has been in each of the last five years.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 (24 Jun 2008)

David Chaytor: ...of those questions is that hon. and right hon. Members turn up to ask the Foreign Secretary and his Ministers questions about what Britain  is going to do in countries such as Burma, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in the full knowledge that the Government’s capacity to influence events in many of those countries is far less than most of us would wish. The same...

Business Statement (15 Dec 2005)

David Chaytor: In Iraq today, citizens will vote in their general election and they will not use the first-past-the-post system. In the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly do not use the first-past-the-post system. In 2007, people who vote in local elections in Scotland will not use that system. We have the unfinished business of the reform of the...

University Admissions Policy (25 Oct 2004)

Mr David Chaytor: ...serious debate, in contrast to the comment of the Liberal Democrat spokesman, the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel). There may be good reasons to use an Opposition day to debate the policy in Iraq and the redeployment of the Black Watch, but that should not undermine the importance of a debate about widening access to and increasing participation in universities. Over the years I have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (17 May 2004)

Mr David Chaytor: May I ask my right hon. Friend about the recording of casualties in Iraq? Does he feel that there is a moral, if not necessarily strictly legal, obligation on the occupying forces to record civilian deaths as well as military deaths; and does he feel that the failure to record Iraqi civilian deaths has an adverse impact on Iraqi people's perception of the occupying forces?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (29 Mar 2004)

Mr David Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list, for each month since it was established, the total income from oil revenues paid into the development fund for Iraq.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (28 Jan 2004)

Mr David Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress towards the establishment of the International Trust Fund to manage Iraq's oil revenues.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Asylum Seekers (20 May 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many failed asylum seekers from (a) Afghanistan, (b) Iraq, (c) Iran and (d) Pakistan have subsequently been granted early clearance to the United Kingdom on a visitor's visa in each of the last three years.

Business of the House (15 May 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...right hon. Friend's point about Ronnie Biggs, and about not discovering all the evidence after the event? Does he agree that there is continuing public concern about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Is it not the case that just a few weeks ago the UN weapons inspectors were working with some success there, but we were then told that there must be a war because they could not find the...

Business of the House (20 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...will know of the statement made earlier by the Secretary of State for Defence in respect of a future statement regarding compensation payments to the partners of those who might lose their lives in Iraq. May I suggest that, in view of the current conflict, this would be an appropriate time for the House to debate the much wider issue of the whole series of policies, benefits, payments and...

Business of the House (13 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: Is it not the case that because Iraq contains the second largest oil reserves in the world, any debate on the conflict in Iraq is inseparable from a debate on the diversity, security and sustainability of our energy supplies? Does my right hon. Friend recall saying last year, in answer to my request for a debate on the Energy Green Paper, that the best time for such a debate would be after...

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2002–2003 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office — War Against Terrorism (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ..., particularly in the way that they have brought the United States within the United Nations framework. Although the report is about all aspects of terrorism, I want to speak specifically about Iraq, as I have not yet had the opportunity to do so during the past five or six months. I fully supported the use of force in the Gulf war in 1990, in the Balkans in the mid-1990s, and, later, in...

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2002–2003 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office — War Against Terrorism (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: With respect to my hon. Friend, I am not ignoring that. Indeed, it is self-evident that Iraq has not yet fully complied. The issue is whether a declaration of war at this stage is a proportionate, effective response to that lack of compliance or whether the existing bureaucratic procedure authorised by the UN would be more effective.

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2002–2003 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office — War Against Terrorism (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...by the international community to the inadequacy of the declaration is immediately to take military action or whether it uses other, long-established means to secure a fuller declaration from Iraq. I do not know whether the fuller, accurate declaration can be obtained in the next few days or weeks. All I am saying is that we ought to give Iraq the opportunity to make that full declaration...

Business of the House (6 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: Regardless of arrangements that may have been made for a debate on possible military action in Iraq, does my right hon. Friend agree that tomorrow's reports by Dr. Blix to the Security Council will be of crucial significance in determining people's attitudes to military action? In the light of that, is he of the clear opinion that next Wednesday it is more important to debate Welsh affairs...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Armed Forces Deployment (Gulf) (3 Mar 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: In the event of hostilities breaking out, does my right hon. Friend anticipate that Iraq will use chemical, biological and nuclear weapons?

Iraq (13 Feb 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of British people have not been convinced by the Government's case, not because they have lost their nerve or do not take seriously the nature of the Iraqi regime or the problem of proliferation, but because they have not been convinced by the logic that a massive military attack will solve the problem. They see the United States' approach to...

Business of the House (6 Feb 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...evidence—also in view of the weapons inspectors' report, which will appear next week? After business questions we shall hear a welcome statement on our contingency preparations in respect of Iraq, but we shall not have an opportunity to discuss the evidence to which the contingency preparations are designed to respond. Does my right hon. Friend not consider that unusual?

Defence in the World (22 Jan 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: May I return to the question of self-defence? Does my right hon. Friend think that the first use of British nuclear weapons in Iraq could be defended under international law on the grounds that it was a form of self-defence?

Business of the House (9 Jan 2003)

Mr David Chaytor: ...the head of the Church of England, does my right hon. Friend find it unusual that our procedures allow for a debate on the pension fund of the Church of England, but not on its views about war in Iraq? Notwithstanding his reply to the question asked by the hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis), does he not feel that at the very least, there is a need for a statement about the...