Results 1-11 of 11 for iraq speaker:Phyllis Starkey

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (27 Mar 2008)

Phyllis Starkey: ...notion that because rockets are fired from civilian areas the Israeli Government are absolved of their responsibility to act within international law in all circumstances. During military action in Iraq, the British Government took care to have lawyers present at every military action advising on whether it was legal and took sufficient account under international law of the need to avoid...

Mr. John Braithwaite (25 Apr 2007)

Phyllis Starkey: The debate centres on a case involving my constituent, Mr. John Braithwaite, but it also raises some general issues about private security companies that provide services in Iraq. The company in this case is ArmorGroup. My concern is the absence of any effective regulatory regime for such companies. I shall start with the case of my constituent. John Braithwaite was a serving police officer...

Mr. John Braithwaite (25 Apr 2007)

Phyllis Starkey: ...after the offer had been accepted; and the selection of individuals for redundancy was arbitrary and based on no objective criteria, as was admitted at the time by ArmorGroup personnel in Iraq. The case also raises the general issue of private security companies and the implications of their increasing involvement in conflict and post-conflict situations. I am grateful to a paper produced...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Police (27 Feb 2007)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether tenders for police training and mentoring in Iraq require employees to be covered by UK employment law in relation to (a) redundancy and (b) other issues.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Contracts: Iraq (29 Jan 2007)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contracts have been awarded to ArmorGroup by her Department for work in Iraq; what the start and end dates of each contract were; what the purpose of each contract was; and how many people were employed under the terms of each contract.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Contracts: Iraq (29 Jan 2007)

Phyllis Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contracts let by her Department for work in Iraq were in relation to projects funded in part or wholly by the (a) Japanese and (b) Dutch Governments.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iran (27 Jun 2006)

Phyllis Starkey: ...to Iran. Everybody whom we met made it very clear that the MEK, to which the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Binley) referred, is widely regarded as a terrorist group that was funded by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. They said that, if we wanted a productive dialogue with Iran about its nuclear policy, the last thing that we, the Americans or any other EU member state should do is...

UK Relations With Iran (11 Oct 2005)

Phyllis Starkey: No, I am not going to give way. I know that others want to speak, so I shall touch only briefly on three other matters: the nuclear issue, human rights and the recent attacks in southern Iraq. We should remember that Iran's nuclear programme started under the Shah's regime. It is an Iranian issue, and it can easily be presented as an Iranian nationalist issue. Another difficulty is the...

Estimates Day: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (15 Mar 2001)

Dr Phyllis Starkey: ...more benign direction than has been the case in the past. We heard evidence during our investigations that Iran has a perfectly legitimate right to feel under threat. It is right next door to Iraq, with which it previously engaged in an extraordinary war, resulting in the death of thousands of Iranian and, indeed, Iraqi citizens. Iran is also already within range of the Jericho 2 missiles...

Iraq (No-fly Zones) (26 Feb 2001)

Dr Phyllis Starkey: ...with the UK and the US alone? Is a thoroughgoing review being conducted across the MOD and the Foreign Office to consider how to rebuild broad support for an effective way forward in dealing with Iraq as part of a broader middle east policy?

Strategic Export Controls (14 Dec 2000)

Dr Phyllis Starkey: ...and the public have effectively applied a measure of hindsight. Examples of that, which would have happened before prior parliamentary scrutiny existed, include arms sales to Argentina and Iraq. With the particular exception of my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd), most Members of Parliament who subsequently criticised those arms sales did not criticise them when the...