Results 1-19 of 19 for iraq speaker:Linda Gilroy

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...that means for my constituency. Not everything that we had to say about the Ministry of Defence's procurement policy was bad, by any means. We remarked on the delivery of equipment and supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan in very challenging circumstances. In particular, our report commends the urgent operational requirements system as "highly effective" in meeting rapidly changing threats....

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Topical Questions (31 Mar 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: On Afghanistan, is my right hon. Friend confident that the sort of security in Iraq that he mentioned in his opening remarks in topical questions will be sufficient to hold presidential elections this year?

Business of the House: Armed Forces Personnel (29 Jan 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...officer who is enthusiastic and experienced cannot be placed on an equal footing with his tri-service counterparts. The armed forces have been working incredibly hard on our behalf. As draw-down from Iraq takes place, the opportunity finally to implement programmes of recovery and recuperation, which need to be well planned, must be fully taken, not just to restore the harmony guidelines...

Topical Debate: Defence Policy (30 Oct 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...of was exactly what people mean when they refer to sea blindness and maritime blindness. That operates on several levels, one of which relates to the general public. When our deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq are shown on television, they appear broadly to be land deployments to which the Navy is not at all central, so it ends up being sidelined. Nothing could be further from the truth,...

Topical Debate: Defence Procurement (19 Jun 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...I look forward to the discussions that I shall shortly have with community leaders about the prospects for Devonport's continuing important role in supporting the Royal Navy and our vital deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Devonport and the Royal Navy (5 Mar 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...takes place in coalition alongside the US and others. Forty other countries are involved in the NATO international security assistance force mission in Afghanistan, and more than 20 are involved in Iraq. As the years go by, a European coalition might become an increasingly likely basis for deploying a joint capability. It is against that background that the announcement about the...

Written Answers — Defence: Helicopters (14 May 2007)

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he is taking to improve the availability of helicopters in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan.

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...been involved. We have before us several interesting areas for scrutiny, including health, defence estates and strategic lift, as well as visits and inquiries into deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. I hope that there will be plenty of opportunity to debate the findings of those inquiries. Although the Committee is careful to praise the Department when praise is due, it is of course...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (Force Levels) (26 Feb 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...that we can recruit the necessary number of Marines—always acknowledging, of course, that the requirement is at a higher level than it was in 2000, before the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq developed?

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...deterrent, which other hon. Members have mentioned. The latter two issues are of great importance to thousands of my constituents, as were our inquiries into troop deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, where some 1,000 servicemen and women whose bases are in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall are deployed. I pay tribute to those servicemen and women for the remarkable job that they do, and the...

Business of the House (14 Dec 2006)

Linda Gilroy: ...Government time before the end of January. May I look to him to ensure that it gives us the opportunity properly to recognise the important job that so many servicemen and women are doing for us in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world, and to recognise the brave politicians of the young democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan? I ask him to take the opportunity, as we are also...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (26 Jun 2006)

Linda Gilroy: When the members of the Select Committee on Defence were in Iraq recently we met members of the 10th Division and General Latif. As well as giving the Iraqis support in training, did my right hon. Friend hold discussions with the Iraqi Government about how they can be resourced in terms of equipment and other things they need to do the job that they are eager and willing to take over in...

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (13 Oct 2004)

Ms Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what effects instability in Iraq is having on his Department's work on reconstruction.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Defence Medical Services (1 Mar 2004)

Ms Linda Gilroy: .... How does the Department intend to tackle that? Will he join me in recognising the contribution made by staff at establishments such as the Royal Naval hospital not only to our forces in the Iraq conflict but to our local communities?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (23 Jun 2003)

Ms Linda Gilroy: If he will make a statement on the contribution which the armed services based in the south-west of England (a) made and (b) continue to make to coalition operations in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (23 Jun 2003)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...a number of roles of which the service personnel and their families can rightly be proud. In respect of those families, he might recollect that, during questions on the statement to the House on Iraq on 21 March, I raised a question about media intrusion at the time of the first casualties arising from the conflict. I wonder whether my right hon. Friend has had time to note that the...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...;to monitor and consider such issues, the scale of the threat and the proportionate action to that threat. In addition to that consideration, my constituency has been host to a small community of Iraqi asylum seekers during the past two years, and their concerns and those of the volunteers and religious communities who help them with their legal, health and education services are a...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...the UN resolutions, has been one of the big worries for my constituents and myself. I must say to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Kelvin (Mr. Galloway) that to think that journalists can rush around Iraq verifying something that stretched and challenged highly skilled, equipped and trained weapons inspectors is laughable. Like most in this House and in my constituency, I have attached great...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence (27 Nov 1998)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ...one should forget that that brutal dictator has already used those weapons, not only against neighbours but against his own people. Despite the best efforts of the United Nations to put a halt to Iraq's weapons development programme, Saddam Hussein has consistently lied, cheated and deceived its weapons inspectors. The responsibility for the recent crisis therefore rests with him, and him...