Results 1-5 of 5 for iraq speaker:Mr David Rendel
- Health and Education (30 Nov 2004)
Mr David Rendel: ...live in a world in which 115 million children have no access to education, but providing that for them would cost $5.6 billion dollars, which is comparable to the £3 billion cost to this country of the Iraq war. Was bombing Iraq a sensible priority to set if we are interested in security, let alone opportunity? Which of those priorities would have been a better investment to fight the...
- University Admissions Policy (25 Oct 2004)
Mr David Rendel: ...' Opposition day, there is no way that we would have let the occasion slip by without using it to allow the House to scrutinise last week's hugely significant change of policy on our troops in Iraq. Matters of life and death and war and peace are the most crucial that any Government have to decide, yet the official Opposition simply have nothing to say. So university admissions it is....
- BBC Monitoring (Reading) (29 Apr 2003)
Mr David Rendel: ...public service. Indeed, that is generally true of the BBC World Service, of which BBC Monitoring is a part. The Minister will be aware of the role played by this service in covering the war against Iraq, to take just one highly prominent and topical example. The BBC Monitoring website states: "We operate around the clock to monitor more than 3,000 radio, TV, press, Internet and news agency...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (19 Mar 2003)
Mr David Rendel: Now that it seems inevitable that, sadly, there will be immense destruction in Iraq over the next few weeks, and given that the Select Committee on International Development reported earlier this year that less than half the necessary funds for the reconstruction of Afghanistan had been contributed, can the Prime Minister assure the House that he, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the...
- Public Accounts (29 Jan 2003)
Mr David Rendel: ...them to learn more about how to commit crimes in future. Combat identification is the second especially topical subject that I want to consider. It is topical because of the severe threat of war with Iraq. The war already has comparatively little public support. Many people believe that we should not even consider going to war in Iraq. If many of our troops are killed by friendly fire or...