Results 1-9 of 9 for iraq speaker:Frank Field

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (6 Nov 2008)

Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total cost to date has been of the deployment of forces in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan.

Orders of the Day: Clause 56 — Commencement (9 May 2007)

Frank Field: ...questions in front of the sample, asked open-ended questions about the voters' biggest disappointment with his 10 years of stewardship as Prime Minister. Whereas we in the House would probably say Iraq, they said, by a clear majority, that he had failed to protect our borders. It is therefore a particular disappointment for me and for my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase (Dr....

Written Answers — Defence: Casualty Statistics (7 Nov 2006)

Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British personnel have been (a) killed and (b) wounded in (i) Afghanistan and (ii) Iraq since the commencement of hostilities.

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half-Day] — Iraq (31 Oct 2006)

Frank Field: ...for a retrospective inquiry? However, will Ministers give an undertaking tonight that we will regularly return to this debate in future to determine what is best for our forces and what is best for Iraq?

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half-Day] — Iraq (31 Oct 2006)

Frank Field: ...constituents has asked me to press for an inquiry into the causes of the war? However, many of my constituents are troubled about which moves we should make in the best interests of the people of Iraq. Many of them would be appalled at the fact that much of the debate is looking backwards. There will come a time when accounts are settled, but my constituents are desperately concerned about...

Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill (1 Nov 2004)

Mr Frank Field: ...been a Member of Parliament. It is also said that there is more than a whiff of anti-Americanism about those who oppose the casino proposals. When the Government are really under pressure on the Iraq war, they sometimes give the nod to the Lobby that I am prepared to go out and defend them. I willingly do so; I am proud of the special relationship that we have with America. I am just so...

Rite of Passage (Welcoming and Coming of Age) (12 Oct 2004)

Mr Frank Field: ...but to have a ceremony that adds to it. When the British Expeditionary Force went to France in the first world war, more than 99 per cent. of our soldiers were baptised. When we sent our forces to Iraq, fewer than four in 10 were baptised. The Bill would provide for a ceremony that was once universal, to remind children and families that there is a wider community beyond the importance of...

Zimbabwe (1 Jul 2004)

Mr Frank Field: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for not giving way earlier, because what he has said strengthens my point. Not many Labour Members are now happy to defend the Government's stance on Iraq in public, although I am one. One of the points that is always thrown at us at public meetings is that the Government were resolute in Iraq but lack that resolution in Zimbabwe. What are we going to do,...

Antisocial Behaviour (16 Dec 2003)

Mr Frank Field: ...is doing for us, and what society expects in return. In the first world war, practically everybody who was sent to France had been baptised, but of the thousands of troops sent to the recent war in Iraq, only one third had been baptised. For two thirds of children, there is no public ceremony whereby we welcome them into our community and say, "Welcome. You are now part of something wider...