Results 1-20 of 27 for iraq speaker:John Gummer

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

John Gummer: ...we used to look to the Labour Benches. That is true right across the board. On every criminal justice Bill, I have time and again voted to the left of the Labour party. When we came to discuss the Iraq war, I voted against it because I thought it was wrong, and the Labour party voted for it. Now I have to vote for the poor on bingo, because the Labour party wants to tax them more. What is...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (20 Feb 2008)

John Gummer: ...needs. It is in Britain's interest to make the European Union stronger in the matters that we are discussing simply because we need to be stronger. For example, those of us who voted against the Iraq war, and have now been shown to be right, would have liked to perceive a willingness in this country to realise that there are occasions when it is important to stand up for an alternative...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 3): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 4) — (4th Allotted Day) (6 Feb 2008)

John Gummer: ...the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) explained what he said experts thought of the matter, but his quotation was not from experts, but from Mr. Sarkozy. That is like explaining the Iraq war by quoting Mr. Blair—we are not talking about an expert, but about someone who is parti pris. I want to look at independent sources. Mr. Sarkozy was putting forward his case, as...

Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] (17 Jan 2005)

Mr John Gummer: ...the way in which people who were already very poor have become poorer under this Government. The Government are not prepared to discuss those issues. Perhaps we could even have a debate about the Iraq war—an unnecessary and unacceptable war that we should have debated properly. We spent seven hours discussing it, yet we spent 200 hours on the Hunting Bill. This Government have no...

Clause 1 — Pension and compensation schemes: armed and reserve forces (20 Oct 2004)

Mr John Gummer: ...neither in a position, nor had the clout, to insist on it taking place. I am now trying again. I suggest to those who have been especially dependent on our forces and have put them in a position in Iraq that is wholly unacceptable—I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) does not agree, but that is my view—that they really should do something. What...

New Clause 1 — Amendment of Companies Act 1985: limit on auditor's liability (No.1): Clause 21 — Power to require documents and information (19 Oct 2004)

Mr John Gummer: ...". They are a reasonable Government, I am often told. They certainly appear to be a believing Government, otherwise the Prime Minister would not have been able to come to the House to speak on the Iraq war in the way in which he did. So they are a believing Government; they are also a thinking Government. What is wrong with the words "reasonably believes"? What is wrong with the words "on...

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr John Gummer: There is no doubt that Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein. There is no doubt either that Zimbabwe would be better off without Mugabe and Burma would be better off without its murderous regime. We could change the lives of people in North Korea and the Sudan by regime change. But we have not chosen to do so, because the fundamental issue is that of the just war. Once one takes into...

Climate Change (27 Jan 2004)

Mr John Gummer: ...world can deploy huge resources to deal with something such as terrorism, about the danger of which it is convinced. Indeed, it can provide huge resources to do wholly wrong things such as invade Iraq: it can spend vast sums of money on some things—in my view, entirely wrongly—while to a great extent it ignores the areas where expenditure might make a significant difference and...

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (17 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development to which countries other than Iraq his Department has assigned gender advisers since 1997.

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what security considerations led his predecessors to refuse to reveal the salaries of the gender advisers he assigned to Iraq.

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what guidance his Department sought in the appointment of two gender experts in Iraq from (a) recognised Muslim experts and (b) those with detailed understanding of Iraq.

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what salaries are paid to the two gender experts who have been assigned by his Department to Iraq.

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what experience of Muslim attitudes the two gender experts who have been assigned from his Department to Iraq have.

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what arrangements he has made to ensure the co-ordination of gender advice to the Government of Iraq between (a) secondees he has assigned and (b) those of other countries.

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (15 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what expert advisers, other than on gender, he intends to send to Iraq for strategic advice; and on which subjects.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (9 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: Did the Prime Minister have the opportunity to explain to Commonwealth leaders why he was taking moneys from the aid budget for activities in Iraq; and were they impressed to find that some of those moneys were being used to pay for gender advisers?

Written Answers — International Development: Gender Advisers (3 Dec 2003)

Mr John Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the sexual balance is of the team of gender advisers he has assigned to Iraq.

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr John Gummer: ...issue, because there are questions about whether they always get their morality right on other matters, although it would be improper to discuss that under new clause 1. Those of us who debated the Iraq war took that position and therefore disagreed with the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton. I am worried that a Minister should come to the House and tell us that he has taken advice...

Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (Extension of Period for Proceedings) (10 Jun 2003)

Mr John Gummer: ...it is being used. It is not for me to suggest the motives behind the pause. We had considerable discussion about the difficulty that the Minister had in combining his role in fighting the war in Iraq and in the planning Bill. We realise that. It is one of the mysterious elements that we have not yet entirely unwound, but we understand that there were all sorts of reasons why the Bill was...

Iraq (26 Feb 2003)

Mr John Gummer: ...as I, but that should lead people to listen carefully to the group that has come together to point out something that should be self-evident—that the case for military action against Iraq is yet unproven. First, it is unproven to the British people. They are not convinced, and my right hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) has been assiduous in pressing the Prime Minister...