Results 1-20 of 48 for iraq speaker:Alan Simpson

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

Alan Simpson: ...are both too narrow and too wide. I agree with the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) that we could quite legitimately separate questions about the conduct of the war once we were in Iraq from questions about how we came to be involved in that war in the first place. It does not help any of us for such a wide remit to be set that it becomes impossible for the committee to...

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

Alan Simpson: ...the French perspective. Scott Ritter, a former head of the United Nations Special Commission weapons inspectors, came here and set out what the inspectors already knew about the destruction of both Iraq's capabilities and its potential to deliver weapons of mass destruction. He gave UNSCOM's evidence to Members who were interested. Denis Halliday, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator, came and...

Members' Allowances (30 Apr 2009) has video

Alan Simpson: ...—the bath plug. I hope that hon. Members accept that that implies no particular relationship between the Home Secretary and me. The bath plug did not vote to take us into an illegal war on Iraq; it would not vote to renew Trident; it did not introduce tuition fees; it would not privatise the Post Office, and it would not turn its back on climate change. Parliament addresses those...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Health Services (15 May 2008)

Alan Simpson: ..., Headley Court in each of the last five years; (2) how many service personnel had rehabilitation treatment at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court after their return from (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan in each of the last five years.

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

Alan Simpson: A number of right hon. and hon. Members were not in the House on 18 March 2003, when we were able to debate an amendment that would have meant resolving that the case for a war on Iraq had not yet been established. In retrospect, I suspect that even more Members wish that they had not been in the House at that time, because many of them were taken in by the arguments with which they were...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Oil (16 Apr 2007)

Alan Simpson: ...Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the Government's policy is on disputes which might be considered by international courts or tribunals relating to the ownership and extraction rights of oil in Iraq.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Oil (20 Mar 2007)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what meetings officials from her Department have held with international oil companies since January 2003 at which Iraq was discussed; and who was present at each meeting.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Oil (19 Feb 2007)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what meetings officials from her Department have held with international oil companies since January 2003 to discuss Iraq; and what subjects were discussed.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Oil (8 Feb 2007)

Alan Simpson: ...the British Ambassador made to the Iraqi Finance Minister in late 2004 on (a) behalf of the International Tax and Investment Center and (b) production-sharing agreements for the development of Iraq's oil.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Dec 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...to inform the Opposition about his departure intentions, but will he tell us whether he has any plans to visit the House of Commons to lead a debate on the current and deteriorating situation in Iraq, so that the House can exercise the duty of scrutiny that has so far been accorded only to the Americans?

Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Desertion (22 May 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...in his demotion. The arguments that he used were entirely about whether some of the orders that he was given were illegal orders relating to the preparation of weapons systems for use in the war on Iraq. Even the German civil courts were unable to question that, but they were able to rule on whether the major clearly, legitimately and conscientiously held those views. On that basis, they...

Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Desertion (22 May 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...rights of serving men and women in the conflicts in which we have placed them. The point at which one crosses from legality to illegality is far from clear. We currently say that the occupation of Iraq is under a legal mandate of the United Nations. However, what do we do when, following the recent incidents in Basra—the part of Iraq in which the United Kingdom is...

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (22 Mar 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...that wrote off the NHS deficit and scrapped prescription charges, which would cost us £1.2 billion. We could do that if, for instance, we transferred the costs of our current military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, which currently comes to £1.3 billion a year. It would be possible for us to have a Budget that guaranteed that we delivered the decent homes standard, with a...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Alan Simpson: ..., accountability to the judiciary and rights of representation, they are to be found enshrined in much of the panic legislation that has been pushed through this House as an extension of the war in Iraq in the form of a war on our own liberties. We are doing what al-Qaeda sought to do by other means, and society will not thank us for it. Those who say that there are lock-in provisions in...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (3 Mar 2005)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what involvement the UK Government had in the drafting of Order 81, issued by the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, which prohibits the saving of seed by Iraqi farmers.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq (17 Jan 2005)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the oral answer of 8 December 2004, Official Report, column 1167, what the basis was for his claim that the United Nations appointed the interim Government in Iraq; and under what legal provision this appointment was made.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the Iraqi Interim Administration regarding materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons that have disappeared from Iraq.

Iraq: UK Forces Adjustments (27 May 2004)

Mr Alan Simpson: Even those of us who believed that Britain was misled into an illegal war on Iraq understand the current predicaments of the UK troops there. Will the Secretary of State clarify two points from his statement? On the current deployments, he used the words "the latest advice" from commanders in the field. Was that in the form of a request from those commanders, rather than a request from the US...

Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice) (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...;not only head of the weapons inspectorate, but himself an international lawyer. In an interview with The Independent at the weekend, he said: "I don't buy the argument the war was legalised by the Iraqi violation of earlier resolutions." He went on to say that ownership of the resolutions rested with the entire 15-member Security Council, and not with individual international states. That...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (23 Feb 2004)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his assessment was of the number of Al Hussein ballistic missiles possessed by Iraq prior to the onset of war; how this assessment differed from the assessment of the weapons inspectors; how many of the Al Hussein missiles had their long range capabilities removed prior to the onset of war; how many Al Hussein missiles were used against coalition...