Results 1-16 of 16 for iraq speaker:Ian Gibson

Points of Order: April Adjournment (3 Apr 2008) has video

Ian Gibson: ...for a long time. I intend to do both, and I hope to subtly link them together. I draw the attention of the House to a 1920 Cabinet memo in which a prominent politician wrote about the occupation of Iraq, which was then Mesopotamia. He described it as "a profuse and futile expenditure of taxpayers' money", and he went on to say that "we cannot go on sprawled out over those vast regions at...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ian Gibson: ...(Sir Peter Tapsell), the historian across the way, will recall, during the 1920s Churchill, Bonar Law and Lloyd George had long debates on the issue of money being spent on the equivalent of the Iraq war then. Why has there not been a proper discussion in this Chamber of the escalating costs of this war? Why does that escalation happen?

Point of Order: Defence Procurement (9 Oct 2007)

Ian Gibson: I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Although I have expressed support for the capital investment and for paying the troops fighting the causes in Iraq and Afghanistan, with reference to the estimates published in spring and winter, does he consider that there is proper parliamentary scrutiny of and debate about that investment? Such debate could mean that more, rather than less, goes...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (2 May 2006)

Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his answer of 2 February 2006, Official Report, columns 704–05W, on Iraq, how many soldiers treated following service in Iraq had (a) physical injuries and (b) a mental illness.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (7 Mar 2006)

Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British soldiers have been wounded in Iraq; how many were returned home as a result of their injuries; and whether his Department keeps records of their geographical location in the UK when they return.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (2 Feb 2006)

Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British soldiers have been wounded in Iraq; how many were returned home as a result of their injuries; and whether his Department keeps records of their geographical location in the UK when they return.

Written Answers — Defence: Civilian Deaths (22 Apr 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Government will pay compensation to the dependants of civilians killed by UK military action in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq.

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...job of mine is to sit on the Liaison Committee with the Chairmen of other Select Committees. A few hours ago, the Foreign Affairs Committee's first special report on the decision to go to war in Iraq was published. It identifies many of the same problems of openness and security that our Committee faced, although I shall not go into all the instances detailed in the report. I believe that...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...an issue if the public believe that they are not being given information. We hear that all the time, whether we are talking about genetically modified crops, measles, mumps and rubella-MMR-jabs or Iraq. Politicians have to judge when to release information to make people feel better. For example, the Washington metro issued a press release describing how its detection system would operate...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Butler Committee (9 Feb 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: To ask the Prime Minister what selection procedures were used to appoint the chair to the committee investigating intelligence sources in the events before the invasion of Iraq; and what assessment he made of the views of prospective members of the committee on whether the Government was right to go to war when deciding on its composition.

Written Answers — Defence: Civilian Deaths (6 Feb 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what steps his Department has taken to identify the number of civilians killed as a consequence of UK military action in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq; and what measures it adopts to address the needs of dependants; (2) what his estimate is of the number of civilians killed (a) directly and (b) indirectly by UK forces during military operations...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (24 Feb 2003)

Dr Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps are being taken to protect UK troops against the potentially toxic environment of Iraq.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (13 Feb 2003)

Dr Ian Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps are being taken to protect the health of the indigenous population of Iraq in the theatre of operations.

Written Answers — Defence: Vaccine Schedule (Gulf Deployment) (10 Feb 2003)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence he has assessed on whether the anthrax vaccine to be used by UK troops in the Gulf protects (a) against the strain of anthrax reportedly held by Iraq and (b) for long periods.

Gulf War Illness (5 Feb 2003)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...is ongoing in that field. We need a staged study, and we need to know how much of the substance has been taken in, where it goes and so on, which is admitted in the Royal Society document. In Iraq, for example, depleted uranium levels are associated with cancers in children and birth defects in the Basra region, where levels are three times higher than in Baghdad. Many other birth defects...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (25 Nov 1997)

Dr Ian Gibson: If he will make a statement on Britain's relations with Iraq. [16011]