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

Paul Keetch: ...with the Prime Minister on one thing—his tribute to our armed forces, whose valour, distinction and professionalism are unique. In return, will he agree with me on one thing: when we invaded Iraq in March 2003, she did not possess weapons of mass destruction available to be deployed against British interests in 45 minutes?

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

Paul Keetch: ...from those arguing in favour of the motions, although not so many from those who oppose them. I shall begin as others have, by paying tribute to 175 British troops who have been killed in the Iraq war. I pay tribute, too, to the 4,000 US troops and the countless thousands of Iraqi civilians who have also died. The decisions that we made on 18 March 2003 are the most momentous that I have...

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

Paul Keetch: .... Gentleman reminds me that it was Lady Eden who said that, and I am grateful to him for once again correcting an historical inaccuracy. There was a time in the run-up to the war when I felt that Iraq was dominating my life. In the months leading up to the conflict, I made three visits to the Gulf, two to the US and one to NATO. Since the war, I have been privileged enough to visit Iraq on...

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

Paul Keetch: The hon. Gentleman is indeed right, and I was going to mention the fact that in the weeks after the attack on Iraq, in the ceremony in which children are named in Islam—forgive me for not knowing the term; in Christianity we call it the christening—the name Osama was given to more boys born in the Islamic world than any other name; I think that proves the hon. Gentleman's point....

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

Paul Keetch: ...the hon. and learned Member for Medway, is the legality of the war. I have never wanted to say that the war was illegal, because if I did, I would be suggesting that the British forces who went to Iraq were complicit in some kind of war crime, but certainly the legality of the war, and the justification by Lord Goldsmith, conveniently changed considerably in a 10-day period in the run-up...

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

Paul Keetch: ...appalling things that Saddam Hussein had done, and the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes), the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested the same thing. On one of my visits to Iraq, I was stopped by a sergeant from the Parachute regiment, who said, "Sir, why am I 'ere? I didn't join the British Army to do this. I joined it to protect my family, to make sure that they...

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

Paul Keetch: ...war might be justified. Kosovo springs to mind: it was a conflict that my party and I supported, because there were clear reasons for doing so. We simply could not say that, however, about Iraq. If we did, we would say it about Zimbabwe and a host of other countries, in which we simply should not get involved. Finally, the one thing we know is that sooner or later, there will be another...

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

Paul Keetch: ...speaks to senior members of Congress who were involved in the Baker review, they will tell him that Congress was able to carry out a thoughtful and full-ranging review of the US commitment in Iraq with no negative effect whatever on troops on the ground or the diplomatic service. If the Foreign Secretary is suggesting that they were put at risk by the review, he is, frankly, wrong.

Written Answers — Defence: Puma Helicopters (29 Nov 2007)

Paul Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what date the RAF Puma helicopter, lost in Iraq on 20 November, first entered service.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Nov 2007) has video

Paul Keetch: The Prime Minister rightly paid tribute to the servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The two men killed in Iraq were possibly in a Puma helicopter that was older than some of the personnel it was carrying. When will the Chinook helicopters ordered by the previous Conservative Government for use by our special forces be delivered for use by our special forces?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (18 Jun 2007)

Paul Keetch: ...by the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), I am sure that the Secretary of State would like to welcome the talks between the United States and Iran on the general security situation in Iraq. However, given that, as he says, it is British forces in southern Iraq who are facing the insurgency, as are British forces on the border with Iran, what involvement did the UK have in those...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

Paul Keetch: I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman has been to Iraq in the run-up to the war or since. I visited our troops in the run-up to the war in Iraq and on three occasions since. May I tell him that soldiers have approached me in the sergeant's quarters in Basra to support the issues that my party raised before the war; its legality, the production of equipment and the way in which the House...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces Personnel (24 Jul 2006)

Paul Keetch: ...), how many armed forces personnel in (a) the Army, (b) the RAF and (c) the Royal Navy have been transferred to the NHS for continued medical care as a result of injuries sustained in (i) Iraq since 2003 and (ii) Afghanistan since 2002.

Written Answers — Defence: Injured British Servicemen (Treatment) (13 Jul 2006)

Paul Keetch: ...ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many armed forces personnel in (a) the Army, (b) the Royal Air Force and (c) the Royal Navy were medically discharged from the armed services in Iraq owing to (i) an accident, (ii) limb amputation and (iii) psychological problems in each year since March 2003; and if he will make a statement; (2) how many armed forces personnel in (a)...

Written Answers — Defence: Injured British Servicemen (Treatment) (10 Jul 2006)

Paul Keetch: ...for Defence (1) how many armed forces personnel in (a) the Army, (b) the Royal Air Force and (c) the Royal Navy who were medically discharged from the armed services for injuries sustained in Iraq in each year since 2003 are being treated at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak hospital, Birmingham; (2) how many armed forces personnel in (a) the Army, (b) the Royal...

Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Desertion (22 May 2006)

Paul Keetch: ...elected Government of the country, whatever we may think about that. Whatever the events of a couple of years ago, surely the hon. Gentleman accepts that the presence of British troops in Iraq now is legal.

Venezuela (8 Mar 2006)

Paul Keetch: ..., for example, about the human rights agenda in Venezuela. In the tenth world democracy audit covering 2004, Venezuela came 126th out of 210 countries, with the same score as Côte d'Ivoire and Iraq. Since winning the national referendum on his presidency in 2004, President Chavez and his majority coalition in Congress have tried to undermine the independence of the judiciary by trying...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Paul Keetch: ...because there was no procedure for the House to check and authorise the decision. Such a situation could put the country in a worse position. We need the Bill not because of what happened with Iraq, but because of what will unfortunately and inevitably happen in the future.

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Paul Keetch: ...the proposed power, but is not there a very good practical reason as well—for the morale of our armed forces? There was a huge debate in this country, to which she referred, about the recent Iraq war, and there was a debate in the armed forces as well—they were discussing these issues—and the mere fact that there was a vote in the House that went one way, although not the...

Written Answers — Defence: Deployments (21 Mar 2005)

Mr Paul Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which sub-units were deployed from the (a) 5th Regiment Royal Artillery to (i) Cyprus, (ii) Iraq and (iii) Northern Ireland, (b) 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery to (A) Cyprus and (B) Iraq, (c) 2nd Royal Tank Regiment to (1) Iraq and (2) Kosovo, (d) Light Dragoons to (x) Bosnia and (y) Cyprus, (e) Queen's Royal Lancers to (aa) Kosovo and (bb) Iraq and...