Results 1-20 of 43 for iraq speaker:Robert Key

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Robert Key: .... Some 52 per cent. support the UK armed forces' presence in Afghanistan, while just over a third—35 per cent.—oppose it. Some 43 per cent. support the UK armed forces' presence in Iraq, and 45 per cent. do not. Levels of support for both those operations are higher than they were last year. It is interesting that a distinct divide appears to have emerged between civil society...

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

Robert Key: ...up, and say, "Well, we may not understand what the armed forces are doing, and we don't like seeing on our television screens what they're doing, and what is being done to them in Afghanistan, Iraq or many other parts of the world"—there are, in fact, some 4,000 different units of the British military all around the world—"but we recognise that when they come home, they should...

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

Robert Key: ...process is in train for setting up a new plan. Such issues do not sound like grand national defence policy but they are important to the morale of the people from all three services in Afghanistan, Iraq and all around the rest of the world. They need to know that we are at least looking after their domestic and administrative interests and ensuring that they can be proud of the offices in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Troops (Telephone Packages) (21 Jul 2008) has video

Robert Key: ...free webcams are usually available too—for the fantastic job that the British Forces Broadcasting Service is doing and for the fact that newspapers are often available in the major centres in Iraq and Afghanistan within 24 hours of their publication in London.

Business of the House: Defence in the World (8 May 2008) has video

Robert Key: ...critical role that Greece has to play, and I hope that it realises the responsibility it carries in that respect. I would like to add to what my right hon. Friend said about what is happening in Iraq. Very rarely is the Royal Navy mentioned in connection with Iraq, but its role there is crucial both in protecting the oil terminals on which the future prosperity of Iraq depends, and in...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peace Keeping Operations (16 May 2007)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British military personnel serving in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan (i) were casevacced from theatre, (ii) were injured by enemy action and (iii) have sustained life-changing injuries since 1 January 2006.

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

Robert Key: ...of Her Majesty's forces. They are good at it—they are the best. I have seen that for myself in Bosnia and Kosovo. In Afghanistan, they are fighting a war as well as keeping the peace. In Iraq, our forces are in harm's way, suffering the consequences of little or no post-conflict planning by the Government and our major allies. However, British forces should not be forced to become a...

Bill Presented: Armed Forces Personnel (6 Jul 2006)

Robert Key: ...Members of Parliament, as happened quite recently. The way in which a Member attacked DSTL was disgraceful—its employees are the very people who provide the daily protection for our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are working hard at Porton Down to protect our service personnel. I also think of all the military and civilian staff at Winterbourne Gunner and the way in which they...

Bill Presented: Armed Forces Personnel (6 Jul 2006)

Robert Key: ...must have evaluated them along the line. In any event, those out in the front with the Royal Military Police should have these vehicles, or some equivalent. When peacekeeping, as we are seeing in Iraq, the RMP has the most difficult task of gathering evidence in terribly difficult circumstances. The special investigation branch has to go out in dangerous circumstances in inadequate...

Written Answers — Home Department: Iraq (Alleged Stolen Cultural Property) (5 Jun 2006)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been in connection with alleged stolen cultural property originating in Iraq in each police force area since January 2004; and if he will make a statement.

Iraq: Roulement (13 Mar 2006)

Robert Key: Much of the remarkable reconstruction work in Iraq, of which we have heard so little for one reason or another, is carried out by the civilian contractors and non-governmental organisations who rely on British forces for protection to do their work. Has the Secretary of State made an assessment of the impact on such reconstruction work of the downsizing of the British commitment?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (17 Oct 2005)

Robert Key: Since the end of the cold war, Her Majesty's forces have earned a wonderful reputation for peacekeeping, in Iraq and elsewhere. Has any serious thought been given to the creation of a British gendarmerie, given the disruption to military forces of such peacekeeping and the disruption to civilian constabularies, which provide staff for much of the policing? That idea will not be new to the...

Porton Down (22 Feb 2005)

Mr Robert Key: ..., ambulance and fire personnel, from every force in the UK, are now fully trained first responders in their communities, and journalists working with troops on dangerous deployments, whether in Iraq or elsewhere, are briefed there too.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (10 Jan 2005)

Mr Robert Key: Will the Secretary of State undertake to ensure that any future announcements of further deployments to Iraq are announced properly and to officers, soldiers and their families in an appropriate manner, unlike before Christmas when the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment learned of its abolition on television?

Illicit Trade in Antiquities (26 May 2004)

Mr Robert Key: ...the more of these debates that we have, to raise the issue gradually up the agenda—we may be talking about small items for sale on the internet or the great issues of the archaeological damage done in Iraq and Mesopotamia—the better, because people will realise the importance of looking backwards if we are to understand how to move forwards.

Deepcut Barracks (24 May 2004)

Mr Robert Key: Of course, our hearts go out to those killed in Iraq and especially to the families of the young people who lost their lives at Deepcut. Does the Minister agree that the Adjutant-General and his staff are delivering for this country the best military training available anywhere in the world? If, like me, the Minister has spent time with the Army training regiment in Winchester or at the Army...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Commission for Africa (12 May 2004)

Mr Robert Key: ...in communities where there is an interface between Islam and Christianity, is there any evidence to show that the damaged reputation of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in Iraq is making it harder to act to relieve debt?

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (16 Sep 2003)

Mr Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the role of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institution in Iraq (a) during the recent conflict and (b) post-conflict.

Defence in the United Kingdom (11 Sep 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...that it will be unsafe to build schools and houses there. I am delighted that the NAAFI headquarters are in my constituency. The organisation played an important role for our servicemen and women in the Iraq conflict and I wanted to say "Thank you", so I tabled a couple of parliamentary questions on NAAFI on 17 June. I thought that, perhaps in an absent-minded senior moment I had...

Sudan (13 May 2003)

Mr Robert Key: It is more than a year since I had the good fortune to introduce a debate on Sudan in this Chamber. We were anticipating conflict with Iraq, and I remember commenting that the Government had their hands full and their eyes firmly fixed on many other targets. However, we were glad that the former Secretary of State for International Development had focused her attention on the matter, along...