Results 1-20 of 33 for iraq speaker:Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...am sure that it will be a surprise to many that in the past three years the number of female councillors has fallen 16 per cent. and we have a lower proportion of women MPs, at 19.5 per cent., than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda, where I was for two weeks in the summer.

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq: Overseas Aid (17 Dec 2007)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to the answer of 9 October 2007, Official Report, columns 437-38W, on Iraq: overseas aid, what lessons have been learnt from provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq that could apply to Afghanistan in terms of how and where aid is delivered.

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (22 Nov 2007)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...to have a Parliament that can hold a Government to account, but one thing that DFID is working very hard on is to establish capacity within Governments in such weakened states. Typical examples are Iraq and Afghanistan. The capacity of the Government to deliver any public service is, in both cases, and in a lot of African states, very low. That is what DFID is very good at doing, and we...

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq: Overseas Aid (9 Oct 2007)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what sectoral priorities the Government is supporting through aid in Iraq.

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...him that the EU affects a vast amount of our constituents' lives—it certainly does—and that EU policy on co-operation is being tested in a number of areas of the world, not least in Iraq, the middle east and Sudan, and we need to co-operate more closely with them on that. His amendment to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill—which, as he said, was supported by...

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way. Some people believe that the outcome of the situation in Iraq will be the federation or even the break-up of Iraq. That would involve a Kurd problem, which would give Turkey very considerable problems indeed and make its accession to the EU even more difficult. Can I take it, therefore, that the British Government will oppose any break-up...

Darfur (28 Nov 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) has made for a no-fly zone, which is one of the simpler things that we could implement. No-fly zones were implemented pretty successfully in Iraq between the first and second Iraq wars. We hear reports of the Sudanese Government or rebels—I know not which—bombing cities in Chad and causing destabilisation there, which is a...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Inter-Parliamentary Union (18 Jul 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...become annual debates—I hope that we will continue to hold them annually—but on her long-standing work on human rights in various guises. She is the Prime Minister's special envoy to Iraq, but she did not even touch on Iraq in her speech. However, she gave numerous examples of human rights abuses by some pretty nasty regimes, and she is to be congratulated in the highest terms...

Written Answers — International Development: Infrastructure Building (Afghanistan/Iraq) (10 Jul 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress his Department has made in building economic infrastructure in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq.

Human Rights Annual Report 2005 (15 Jun 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...of help have been made to resettle them in third countries. It seems that that situation has a possible solution. My right hon. Friend mentioned in vivid terms the human rights abuses going on in Iraq, and he questioned the future of our troops there. He was right to do so. We must all think of what we are achieving in Iraq and whether by being there we are helping the formation of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: International Law (25 Apr 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ... the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), the UN has failed to root out corruption in the oil-for-food scandal and to prevent genocide in Darfur. It has also faced a severe test in Iraq and is doing so again in Iran. Given all that, is not it high time for the US and the UK—effectively the two largest contributors to the UN—to push reform up the political agenda...

United Nations Reform (18 Apr 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...had in mind in 1941. Unless we take the opportunity to reform the United Nations so that it becomes competent, we shall see more global catastrophes and problems. In my view, the UN failed on Iraq. Diplomacy is always preferable to war. With the 28 April deadline set for Iran, we now have the next low-water mark for the UN. If we fail on that as well, we are heading for deep trouble....

Venezuela (8 Mar 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...and offered moral support to regimes intent on social justice and"— the one bit that I do not agree with— "redistribution of wealth. In light of our participation in the invasion of Iraq and global perception of UK foreign policy, I believe it is highly advisable to employ constructive language and diplomacy" —which is what I hope we have achieved in this debate—...

Human Rights (Central Asia) (8 Mar 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...take the lead. He also quoted from an article in The Economist, which continues with a wonderful bit of irony: "If so, the European Union has risen to the occasion as grandly as it did over Bosnia, Iraq and on so many other occasions: with a display of spinelessness worthy of a sea full of jellyfish." Like the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland, my hon. Friend has tabled questions about...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iran (5 Apr 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I thank the Foreign Secretary for that answer. However, bearing in mind the Government's use of intelligence over Iraq, how can we trust their assessment of Iran's weapons of mass destruction?

Economic Affairs (1 Dec 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...the general situation in the middle east, which has severe consequences. It has led not only to a huge oil price spike but to a significant cost, both here and in the USA, of keeping our troops in Iraq. That, of course, has led to the special provision by the Chancellor. The second is the substantial decline of the dollar, which has now reached a rate of almost 50p. That is because other...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Troop Deployment (Iraq) (29 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: If he will make a statement on troop deployment in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Troop Deployment (Iraq) (29 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: The Secretary of State has reiterated to the House this afternoon that our troops based in Iraq need the very best equipment for the 21st century. How does he respond therefore to the fact that the lives of our troops are being threatened by the problems with the new Bowman communication system and, worse still, by the undemanded firing of the Warrior tanks? What measures, other than posting...

United Nations (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...with those statements. Her Majesty's loyal Opposition have consistently upheld, throughout their existence, the rule of law. We were therefore very concerned about the basis on which we went into Iraq. I do not want to go over that particularly, but on 13 March 2003 I questioned the then Leader of the House, the right hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). I said: "The Leader of the...

United Nations (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Is not a real, glaring example of what my hon. Friend says staring us in the face? If the UN could play a bigger role in providing a broader peacekeeping force in Iraq, that force would be much more broadly recognised and welcomed by the Iraqi people than the present force, whose members tend to be regarded as occupiers, not peacekeepers.