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Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (24 Feb 2009) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I remind the Secretary of State that I was one of those who voted against war in Iraq? Indeed, I drafted a motion with the aim of securing a full inquiry. Unlike the Liberal Democratic party, Lord Smith and I were responsible for drafting the anti-war motion that Mr. Speaker selected. That said, however, I think that the right hon. Gentleman is wholly right. I do not believe that Cabinet...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Iraq (18 Dec 2008) has video

Douglas Hogg: Withdrawal from Iraq will doubtless lead to increased pressure to deploy further United Kingdom troops in Afghanistan. Does the Prime Minister agree that we should not do so unless other major NATO countries are prepared to deploy troops in a combat role in Helmand province? Will he tell the House what conversations he has had with other major NATO countries—at the European Council last...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Democratic Republic of the Congo (4 Nov 2008) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I reinforce the view of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir Malcolm Rifkind)? British forces are heavily engaged— indeed, overstretched—in Iraq and Afghanistan. Any significant deployment to the Congo would seriously dilute the resources available to British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. That must not happen.

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: None (15 May 2008)

Douglas Hogg: ...it was specific to individuals, but I can well understand that, for example, one might identify errors in the procurement department that resulted in armed servicemen serving in Afghanistan and Iraq not being provided with adequate equipment, or defects in the warning systems. If that information were to be published and personalised, I would have thought that  that would run the...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Clause 64 (13 May 2008)

Douglas Hogg: ...he bears in mind that the Defence Secretary, for example, went to the High Court to try to prevent coroners from expressing a view on the equipment provided to soldiers  who died in Afghanistan and Iraq, one may suppose that that could be used to prevent juries from inquiring into the death of servicemen abroad when there could be criticism of their senior officers.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq (1 Apr 2008) has video

Douglas Hogg: Does not the statement we have heard demonstrate the folly of the policy on which we have embarked? Is it not a fact that the disestablishment of the Iraqi army at the time of Saddam Hussein's fall was the direct cause of the Iraqis' failure to gain control of the streets of Basra and elsewhere in Iraq? The Government were associated with that decision. Is it not also a fact that our...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iraq (25 Mar 2008) has video

Douglas Hogg: Does the Minister understand that many of us believe that our involvement in Iraq has done immense damage to Britain's national and international interests, and that that is one of several disreputable reasons why the present Government will not allow an immediate inquiry into Iraq?

Business of the House (26 Jul 2007) has video

Douglas Hogg: May I renew the request that I made to the Leader of the House last week for an early debate on Iran and Afghanistan? Many of us believe that our policies in Iraq are deeply flawed and many of us believe that, with the available forces, we will not be able to achieve in Afghanistan any of the objectives that we have set ourselves. We must debate those matters urgently and frequently.

Business of the House (19 Jul 2007) has video

Douglas Hogg: May we have an early debate on the Government's strategic objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan? Many of us believe that the cost in terms of lives and casualties in Iraq outweighs any political or military objective that we can reasonably obtain and, in Helmand province in Afghanistan, we have taken to ourselves objectives on which we cannot succeed, given the existing troop levels, and the...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2007)

Douglas Hogg: ...on the Chancellor, will my hon. Friend remind the House that the Chancellor failed to mention the phasing out of the 10p band, which is just the sort of omission that gave us the dodgy dossier on Iraq?

Business of the House (22 Feb 2007)

Douglas Hogg: ...is to leave office fairly soon, in effect driven out by his colleagues. Given that, may we have a very early debate on a motion to censure the Prime Minister in respect of his conduct of the war in Iraq? Most of us think that the war was illegal, unwise, unnecessary and profoundly dangerous, and it was justified by an assertion of facts which have proved to be inaccurate. It is surely...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq (12 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: ...contrary to our national interests find it deplorable that the Prime Minister has not yet come to the House to answer the searing indictment of his policies that is contained in the report of the Iraq Study Group? Will the Secretary of State tell his right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer that they are responsible for having got us into this mess, and...

Public Bill Committee: Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill (12 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: ...members of the Committee can be present at the statement. As far as this afternoon is concerned, you will have heard Mr. Speaker reply to a point of order yesterday, Mr. Bercow, on the report of the Iraq study group. As there was in business questions last Thursday, there was pressure for the Prime Minister to make a statement. Mr. Speaker indicated obliquely that he might—I can put...

Business of the House (7 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: Given the Prime Minister's shameful refusal to come to the House to respond to the Iraq study group report, we will have plenty of time to discuss future passport policy. Will the Leader of the House keep in mind early-day motion 336? [That this House notes that it is the intention of the Government that from the Spring of 2007 all first-time applicants for a passport shall present...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Trident (4 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: The right hon. Gentleman relies on his judgment, but does he recognise that it was the very judgment that took us into Iraq, and that his reputation for good judgment is not highly regarded? That being so, if he wants to carry this thing forward, perhaps this House needs some independent advice. Might I commend early-day motion 239, which is in my name? It suggests the appointing of seven...

Business of the House (16 Nov 2006)

Douglas Hogg: May I suggest that next week we hold a debate entitled, "This House has confidence in Her Majesty's Government's policy in and towards Iraq"? It would be interesting to see whether the Government have the courage to lay such a motion, which would enable those of us who opposed the war at its inception to repeat our view that it was foolish, probably immoral, certainly illegal, profoundly...

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

Douglas Hogg: Will my right hon. Friend also remind the House that President Bush himself commissioned former Secretary of State Baker to examine the present situation in Iraq and come forward with policy options? No one anywhere, even on the Labour Front Bench, has suggested that that was inappropriate.

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Douglas Hogg: ...characterise as those of freedom fighters. It is bizarre, as I observed to the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson), that it is legitimate for the Government to go to war against Iraq to procure regime change, yet if we had urged the citizens of Iraq—as we did, incidentally, in the first Gulf war—to rise up against the regime of Saddam Hussein, we would have been...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Douglas Hogg: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a curious paradox here, in that on the one hand, it appears that it is proper for Governments to wage war to procure regime change in Iraq, whereas on the other, if we recommended that the citizens of Iraq should have risen up to destroy Saddam Hussein, we could be prosecuted in this country for doing that?

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Power to Make Control Orders (9 Mar 2005)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...has told the House several times that he is acting on the advice of the intelligence and security services. However, he also told us that when he said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Let us remember a clear finding of the Butler report: the Government did not fully or accurately represent to the House the contents of the intelligence reports that they were receiving....