Results 1-14 of 14 for iraq speaker:Stephen McCabe

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (25 Oct 2004)

Mr Stephen McCabe: How many of our personnel in Iraq does my right hon. Friend estimate are buoyed up by the constant attacks on British policy? Can a modern army win a war, particularly a terrorist war, if its mission is constantly undermined by attacks from its own Parliament and in its own press? Is not that the real question that some people on the home front should be asking themselves?

Iraq (7 Jun 2004)

Mr Stephen McCabe: Does my right hon. Friend share my sense that we are now at a crossroads on this issue? Whatever the differences of the past, we can now all unite around the interests of the Iraqi people and the reconstruction of Iraq. Does that not mean that we all have to give support to the fledgling Government? Is it possible to do so while simultaneously using Iraq as part of the domestic political...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Stephen McCabe: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. On the issue of Iraq, I was not aware that we were actually discussing the future of the health service. On the issue of Iraq, there were cross-party positions in the House. My point is that there is a clear Conservative agenda to run down and denigrate the health service and to prevent modernisation and reform, because that is a precondition of the...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...new. Like many ordinary Members of Parliament, however, I have wrestled with this issue for several months. I did not start with the view that we should necessarily take military action in Iraq. Naturally, I have spent a good deal of time listening to the criticisms of those who are worried about the prospect of war. It has occurred to me that there have been a number of recurring themes...

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2002–2003 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office — War Against Terrorism (11 Mar 2003)

Mr Stephen McCabe: When the Committee said that Iraq should not be allowed to continue to defy the United Nations and that this was a final opportunity, what kind of time scale was it thinking about? Did it think that Iraq should not be allowed to continue to defy the United Nations for several months, or for years, or into the dim and distant future? Did the Committee think that "final" meant something other...

Business of the House (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...with him Iran's appalling human rights programme and its own secret weapons programme? Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that some of us, while accepting that the spotlight should be turned on Iraq, cannot understand why we are asked to turn a blind eye to the bloodstained activities in Tehran and the secret weapons programme that it is developing? Could we have an opportunity to...

Northern France (2 Dec 2002)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...with labour shortages is the sensible way forward, but I want to ask him a question that I suspect some of my constituents will be asking me before the end of this week. It is about the 1,000 or so Iraqis. These are people who almost certainly travelled across Europe in the company of criminals and gangsters, and originally claimed to be asylum seekers but now claim to be economic...

Modernisation of the House of Commons (29 Oct 2002)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...that we should make short speeches, but recently we have noticed that such limits have tended to reduce Members' willingness to take interventions. The worst example was during the recall debate on Iraq. All over the place, people were demanding the recall of Parliament, but instead of a debate full of interventions we heard a succession of 10-minute statements that had been written on the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iran (23 Jul 2002)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...and its appalling human rights record—with almost daily public executions and floggings, sometimes for the most trivial offences, such as playing snooker—why is Iran a friend, yet Iraq, which has a remarkably similar record, is an enemy and a threat?

Oral Answers to Questions — Iraq (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...authorities and at the United Nations about the alleged activities of the Delhi-based company NEC Ltd, which is alleged to be supplying missile material and biological weapons material to the Iraqi regime? Is that not exactly the type of activity that must be ended if there are to be any developments in policy towards Iraq?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Nov 2000)

Mr Stephen McCabe: If he will make a statement on the impact of sanctions on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. [135171]

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Nov 2000)

Mr Stephen McCabe: I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Mr. Anderson) that Saddam Hussein must bear considerable guilt for the suffering experienced by the poor people of Iraq, but does my hon. Friend the Minister believe that it is right for Britain to pursue an open-ended sanctions policy against Iraq, which results in suffering for innocent children and others, while simultaneously...

Prayers: Iran (14 Jul 1999)

Mr Stephen McCabe: ...Rajabi, in Turkey? Why, on 10 June 1999, did the Iranian Government launch a Scud B missile attack, in violation of United Nations Security Council resolution 598, on an Iranian resistance camp? When Iraq acquires and threatens us with weapons of mass destruction, we take action to control that threat. Yet, in Iran, we have a regime that has already successfully test-fired the Shahab 3...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (16 Jun 1999)

Mr Stephen McCabe: May I welcome the news that the Government are seeking United Nations support for an initiative to ease sanctions on Iraq and relieve the suffering of innocent people, especially the problems of malnutrition and infant mortality? Can the Prime Minister give any further details on that initiative and say when he hopes to see real progress?