Results 1-20 of 42 for iraq speaker:David Lidington

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq Committee of Inquiry (12 Nov 2009)

David Lidington: To ask the Prime Minister if he will instruct the Iraq Committee of Inquiry to investigate the treatment of former Iraqi locally employed civilians by Government (a) departments and (b) agencies.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Armed Conflict (11 Nov 2009)

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Iraqi locally employed civilians have been killed by militias in Iraq.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Armed Conflict (10 Nov 2009)

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how long on average elapsed between the announcement of the (a) asylum and (b) financial payment scheme for former Iraqi locally employed civilians and the first former Iraqi locally employed civilians leaving Iraq for a neighbouring country under the scheme.

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Global Security (Iran) (9 Jul 2009)

David Lidington: ...fight coalition forces, including our own? What is Iran's current relationship with the Taliban? Iran has also shown that it is capable of playing a malign role in other parts of the region such as Iraq, Lebanon and the Gulf. Only a few months ago, there was an overt reference by a senior Iranian leader to Bahrain's being legitimately a province of Iran rather than an independent state....

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Ashraf (Geneva Convention) (25 Mar 2009)

David Lidington: ...Ministers of whichever party have happened to be in office at the time. The first thing that we need to do this morning is to work out the respective responsibilities of the British, American and Iraqi Governments. Crucially, are the inhabitants of Camp Ashraf protected persons under the fourth Geneva convention? My reading of the convention—I am no lawyer—is that they are...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Females (23 Mar 2009)

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the government of Iraq on women's rights in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

David Lidington: ...a nuclear Russia to the north of us, which occupied the northern part of our country not so many decades ago; we have a United States fleet to our south in the Gulf; we have an American army in Iraq to the west and Afghanistan to the east; we have a nuclear-armed Sunni power in Pakistan; and we have Israel, which is assumed to possess nuclear weapons, which talks about Iran representing an...

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

David Lidington: ...which would need to be willing to turn language about wanting co-operation into concrete policy. It is fair, too, for the west to acknowledge that Iran has legitimate national interests at stake in Iraq and the wider Gulf region. However, if Iran wants the west to take its interests seriously, it needs to understand how destabilising are comments such as those made recently by one of the...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

David Lidington: ...by most contributors in all parts of the House. First, there has been pride in the courage and professionalism of our armed forces. Secondly, there has been regret at the enormous cost of the Iraq war and the subsequent violence, the deaths, the physical and mental scars, the refugees who have gone to neighbouring countries and the many displaced families within Iraq. Thirdly, throughout...

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Human Rights (18 Dec 2008)

David Lidington: ...the Foreign Office's report and the Foreign Affairs Committee's inquiry are so broad in scope that I shall inevitably have to pick and choose which themes and which countries I refer to. However, Iraq is important, intrinsically so because of what is happening there and more particularly so because the state of affairs in Iraq is to some extent the responsibility of this country. I have...

Christians in Iraq (16 Dec 2008)

David Lidington: ...Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) on securing this debate on an issue that, as he said, he has been campaigning on for some time. It is appropriate that we should be debating the appalling persecution of Iraq's Christian minority as we approach the festival of Christmas. However Members voted in the original decision to intervene in Iraq, in 2003, everyone ought to feel a sense of anger and shame...

Christians in Iraq (16 Dec 2008)

David Lidington: ...one had to sum up the political challenge of addressing the persecution it would be to ensure that the guarantees and the admirable fine language contained in the United Nations resolutions and the Iraqi constitution are translated into reality on the ground for families living in all parts of Iraq. There are important questions for the Kurdish regional authorities. Repeated allegations...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (15 Dec 2008)

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made on negotiations with the Government of Iraq on the stationing of British forces in the country after 31 December 2008; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Detainees (26 Nov 2008)

David Lidington: ...concerning the treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and (b) the interim report of the International Committee of the Red Cross of February 2004 on the treatment of prisoners by coalition forces in Iraq.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Iraq (26 Nov 2008)

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Iraqis who have successfully submitted applications under the (a) Locally Employed Staff Assistance Scheme for resettlement in the UK and (b) Gateway Refugee Protection programme are awaiting transfer in (i) Jordan, (ii) Iraq and (iii) Syria.