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Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009)

Denis MacShane: ...direct experience of the matter, because some 19 years ago I became involved tangentially, through a friend, in the case of eight British fusiliers who were killed by friendly fire in the first Iraq conflict. They were brought home, but they could not be buried until there had been a coroner's inquest, because a person cannot be buried in the UK without the coroner's say-so. We found the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Iraq (15 Jun 2009) has video

Denis MacShane: ...has heard Sir Roderick Lyne comment on British foreign policy will know that at times, he is no friend to this Government. Will the Prime Minister extend the inquiry to take evidence from people in Iraq? People suffered under Saddam's dictatorship and were freed from it, and then had to accept an onslaught from jihadi Islamist extremists, Iranians, al-Qaeda and Syria, which our troops...

Bill Presented: Topical Debate — Zimbabwe (3 Jul 2008) has video

Denis MacShane: ...to focus on its responsibilities? It is unable to discharge its responsibilities. What can we do to make sanctions work? They failed against Serbia during the Balkan crisis, and they failed against Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They are failing against Sudan and they failed against Burma. What do we want from an effective sanctions policy? I hope the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister...

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

Denis MacShane: Are we not seeing a post-Iraq foreign policy emerging, exemplified by President Sarkozy's visit here, his desire to see a reintegration with NATO and to send more troops to Afghanistan, and also by Senator John McCain's statement on the front page of Le Monde at the weekend that the US must listen to its allies and rebuild relations with Europe? Is not the real lesson to learn that Europe...

Deferred Division: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 5) (20 Feb 2008)

Denis MacShane: ...get its defence act together, but we should be careful before patronising all the other countries of Europe. Many funerals have taken place in the past two or three years as a result of events in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world. As has happened in families in this country, men and women have grieved for people who died trying to protect our common security. I wish that there...

Orders of the Day: European Communities (Finance) Bill (19 Nov 2007)

Denis MacShane: ...then French President, Jacques Chirac, and the then German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to maintain CAP expenditure at a fixed amount, not as a percentage amount. That was in the context of the Iraq conflict and, frankly, a deep worsening of relations and divisions within the EU. If we want to achieve desired British goals of getting some reduction as regards the CAP, we will have to...

Orders of the Day: European Communities (Finance) Bill (19 Nov 2007)

Denis MacShane: ..., Yorks (Mr. Hague), made endless appeals in a fine and effective speech for more European Union action. He said that EU Foreign Ministers had wasted opportunities and that they ought to do more on Iraq. I agree with him. On Burma, he says that the EU should tighten "targeted sanctions against the military regime".—[ Official Report, 12 November 2007; Vol. 467, c. 419.] I cannot...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Governance of Britain (25 Oct 2007) has video

Denis MacShane: Are we actually at war in Iraq? The Lord Chancellor says that he wants to look at extending the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to a range of organisations that perform public functions. No greater public function is performed than that by the media. Does he think that the 2000 Act should be extended generally to the media, so that we can get an answer to the famous question: quis custodiet...

[Sir John Butterfill in the Chair] — Anti-Semitism (19 Jul 2007)

Denis MacShane: ...in the tube two years ago, the failed car bombings a few weeks ago and the attacks on the twin towers, but that was the easy part. The real test is to condemn suicide bombings in the middle east, Iraq, Kashmir or Afghanistan. A dead man in a London tube or a Manhattan office tower is an innocent victim of evil terrorism, but to read much of the material written by Islamist ideologues, a...

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

Denis MacShane: ...I agree with the shadow Foreign Secretary that there are other Privy Councillors, outside the House, who could make a useful contribution. I also agree that we need a debate on our policy in Iraq and the broader middle east. I would have been happy to see Parliament recalled in September. I would have been happy if last Monday, when we had some trivial Opposition day debate that attracted...

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

Denis MacShane: ...rather not. We had a vote at the time on that policy, and we then had a general election, so we have had the democratic mandate of both this House and the people on the question of intervening in Iraq.

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

Denis MacShane: .... I put it to Opposition parties that they consider my invitation not to indulge the Scottish National party by voting for the substantive motion, the only one before us tonight. I agree that Iraq poses an enormous challenge and great difficulties. At times, the present Secretary of Defence in America may be to President Bush what Senator Varus was to the Emperor Augustus. I invite the...

Orhan Pamuk (15 Nov 2005)

Denis MacShane: ...French or German nation, all debate would dry up. Listening to that Turkish MP, I thought that I was listening to an Islamic fundamentalist from Iran, or a Ba'athist supporter of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but he was a fellow MP from a country in NATO that hopes to join the European Union. Instead of modernising Turkey, there appear to be many in Turkish politics and the judicial system who...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: G8 Summit (23 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: There are no plans to discuss conventional arms sales at the G8 Summit, and it is too early to say what discussions there might be on Iraq at the Summit.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (22 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: The direct local resource cost of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) operations in Iraq for financial years 2002–03 and 2003–04 was £0.349 million and £5.465 million respectively. Direct local resource costs for financial year 2004–05 are estimated to be around £13 million. Estimated FCO capital investment expenditure in financial year 04–05, relating...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (22 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...Affairs Committee of the same date setting out the legal basis for the use of force. This included the Attorney General's Parliamentary Answer and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office paper entitled Iraq: Legal Basis for the Use of Force."

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: General Affairs and External Relations Council (3 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...Representative to the EU) and I represented the UK at the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) in Brussels on 21 February 2005. Conclusions were agreed on the Middle East, Iraq, Western Balkans, Ukraine and Sudan. General Affairs Session Preparations for the European Council—22/ 23 March, Brussels The presidency introduced the draft agenda for the March European...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (1 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: We are not aware of any investigations currently being undertaken by OLAF concerning illegal exports to Iraq.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (1 Mar 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted thorough investigations into Iraq's nuclear weapons programme and made a full inventory of Iraq's known holdings of nuclear material in the 1990s. They reported to the UN regularly on their activities. Following reports of looting in the aftermath of the recent conflict, IAEA inspectors conducted an inventory check in...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: General Affairs and External Relations Council (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Denis MacShane: ...in the absence of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary. John Grant (UK Permanent Representative to the EU) accompanied me. Conclusions were agreed on the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), Iraq, Ukraine, tsunami, Cuba, Western Balkans, and Sudan. General affairs session Annual programme of the Council (2005)/annual work programme of the European Commission The Council held a short...