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Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: I remember being here on 15 June, when the Prime Minister made his statement on Iraq. I felt angry and upset, and I told him and colleagues that a secret inquiry was not acceptable. Why did I say that? The previous Thursday, I attended a seminar held under the Chatham House rule with my friends for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) and for Newport, West (Paul Flynn) and other colleagues in the...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: ...the human rights QC. He spoke about a note from President Bush to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair on 31 January 2003. President Bush allegedly said, "Put up the planes; fly the planes over Iraq; paint them in UN colours, and when Saddam shoots them down, that's the pretext to go to war." I do not know whether that is fantasy land, or even whether that document really exists, but the...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq Conflict (18 Jun 2009)

Gordon Prentice: ...parties represented in the House and (b) the Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee before announcing (i) the terms of reference and (ii) the composition of an inquiry into the Iraq war; and if he will make a statement.

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

Gordon Prentice: ...has changed since that secret inquiry. I want the Prime Minister to understand that. I had hoped for a new politics of openness after last week. I am not prepared to accept a secret inquiry into Iraq, and I want the Prime Minister to think again. May I ask the Prime Minister this? After everything that he has been saying, why on earth did he not consult the official Opposition, the Liberal...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Sir Jeremy Greenstock (2 Jun 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will withdraw his Department's objection to the publication of Sir Jeremy Greenstock's proposed book on Iraq.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq: Inquiries (20 Apr 2009)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Prime Minister whether he has set a timetable for establishing an Iraq inquiry.

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: ..., so I will vote with the Conservatives to support it. Why do we need an inquiry? The answer is self-evident. The country was comprehensively misled, and we have been misled ever since. "Lessons on Iraq", the Defence Committee's report in 2004, stated that the "MoD has failed to provide us with certain documents... and has demonstrated... less co-operation and openness than we have the...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: ...fade, but some memoirs have been blocked. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who was our man in Baghdad in 2003-04 and served in the United Nations five years previously, right through the run-up to the war in Iraq, has written a book called "The Cost of War". It has still not been published. When he appeared before the Committee in January 2006, he told us that his memoirs were "in the fridge not the...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: I do not have the time, unfortunately. That diplomat told us: "I had read the intelligence on Iraq for four and a half years, been part of the Joint Intelligence Committee process, had taken part in US/UK bilaterals every quarter for four and a half years, and during that time the assessment of Iraq and the assessment of our intelligence on Iraq was very clear. It was that there was no...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (24 Feb 2009) has video

Gordon Prentice: ...had been prepared by the Departments and Cabinet members did not have full knowledge of what they were being asked to decide. I ask my friend this: what is the point of having another inquiry on Iraq, as promised by the Prime Minister when our troops come home, if that inquiry does not have full access to all the Cabinet minutes and cannot take evidence on oath?

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Gordon Prentice: ...go into ancient history, but earlier I mentioned Robin Butler, who, along with Lord Hutton, exposed for everyone to see the internal wiring of the British Government: the way in which we went to war in Iraq, when the Cabinet was treated like a vegetable patch and not brought into the discussions. It is all there—I will not go through it all—in the Butler report. There is then...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Iraq (22 Jul 2008) has video

Gordon Prentice: How difficult is it for the Iraqi Government to recruit police officers, given that they are regularly targeted, and is corruption, which was endemic, still a problem in the police force? How many people are training police officers in Iraq?

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

Gordon Prentice: .... Did he know that the Public Administration Committee will be taking evidence next week on the possibility of initiating a parliamentary inquiry into the circumstances leading to the war in Iraq? Given that such an inquiry would not be partisan—the Opposition motion is, by nature, partisan—would he support an inquiry couched in those terms?

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Gordon Prentice: ...s advice—the legal advice that allowed the Prime Minister and the Government to say that—I was told that it was confidential. I am not prepared to take these matters on trust, not after Iraq, not after weapons of mass destruction and not after the "45 minutes" assertion. If the Prime Minister came here and told us that we had to invade Iran, do you think the military would go...

Written Answers — Defence: Interpreters (18 Jul 2006)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many interpreters are employed by the UK military in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (13 Mar 2006)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in the US on the date for possible withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (16 Jan 2006)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Prime Minister what recent discussions he has had with General Sir Michael Rose concerning Iraq and the situation in the Middle East; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Defence: Army Prosecuting Authority (24 Nov 2005)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British soldiers in Iraq are under investigation following allegations of misconduct, where no charges have yet been brought; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces (21 Nov 2005)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what arrangements are in place to provide entertainment to service personnel in (a) Iraq, (b) Afghanistan and (c) other countries where the military serve.

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)

Gordon Prentice: ...the principles behind it? The Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr. Brown), who could become the next Prime Minister, is in favour. So who is against? The Prime Minister is against the Bill. Iraq is like a ball and chain round his ankle, and he cannot bear the thought of prime ministerial powers being fettered in this way, but it will happen. I want to put the Government's position on...