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

Jack Straw: ..., I should like to make a statement on the use of the ministerial veto under section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act, in respect of minutes of two Cabinet meetings in March 2003 relating to Iraq. I need first to set out some background. The Freedom of Information Act has profoundly changed the relationship between citizens, and their elected representatives and the media on the one...

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

Jack Straw: ...in the Act, but it is perfectly possible that some interested party may attempt to secure a judicial review of the decision. On the issue of an inquiry into aspects of the military action in Iraq and its consequences, as I said, there have already been at least four inquiries. I am well aware that the Prime Minister is on record as saying that once the troops are home he will consider the...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Foreigners (26 Mar 2008)

Jack Straw: ... 54 7 61 Sweden 10 5 15 Switzerland 6 1 7 Turkey 211 4 215 Turkmenistan 1 0 1 Uzbekistan 3 0 3 Total Middle East 584 5 589 Iran 205 2 207 Iraq 267 1 268 Israel 24 0 24 Jordan 9 0 9 Kuwait 9 0 9 Lebanon 27 1 28 Oman 1 0 1 Qatar 1 0 1 Saudi Arabia 14 1 15 Syrian Arab Republic 6 0 6 ...

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

Jack Straw: ...Committee that we propose to establish will do so, too. In my judgment, the resolution will move the role of the House beyond existing conventions, such as that which we sought to establish on Iraq, and will change the way in which the Government will operate, internally, where there is consideration of an armed conflict. That is what I want, personally, not least as a result of my...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Islam (17 Mar 2008)

Jack Straw: ...1991 Census codes Total 8,243 1,167 484 3,652 2,660 189 91 UK 4,958 12 6 48 31 1 1 Pakistan 416 0 1 97 0 0 1 Somalia 322 0 3 5 90 1 0 Iraq 259 16 5 67 1 10 2 Turkey 221 56 6 18 0 20 0 Nigeria 185 0 1 1 98 0 0 Bangladesh 179 1 1 95 3 1 0 Algeria 179 47 14 19 14 5 1 Jamaica 163 1...

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

Jack Straw: ...supported a motion in this House that declared that it was "inconceivable" that the precedents set in 2002 and 2003, when the Government sought the approval of this House for military action in Iraq, would not be followed in the future. The same motion called on the Government "to come forward with...detailed proposals" on how that convention should be entrenched. Today's consultation...

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

Jack Straw: We will have to have another occasion to debate the justification for military action in respect of Iraq on 18 March 2003. I simply say to the hon. Gentleman, who voted for it, I think—I certainly did; if he did not, I apologise—that the House as a whole voted for it by a very large majority. I have thought about this a very great deal. As far as I am concerned, on the basis of...

Business of the House (28 Jun 2007) has video

Jack Straw: May I first pay tribute on behalf of the Government and the House to the soldiers who lost their lives in southern Iraq in the small hours of this morning, and send our deep condolences to their families, friends and comrades in arms? Yesterday in this House my right hon. Friend Tony Blair paid his own tribute to the British forces. They are indeed the best and the bravest, as those such as...

Business of the House (28 Jun 2007)

Jack Straw: ...kin should always be the first to know whenever possible. However, I do not think it is practical or realistic to dismiss the fact that others may be broadcasting such news; the problem is that in Iraq, as everywhere else in the world, there are people with mobile phones, cameras and video cameras at all those sites, so the news more than seeps out; it is broadcast in a large way.

Business of the House (28 Jun 2007)

Jack Straw: I understand the hon. Gentleman's great concern—not least from his own experience. Many Members on both sides of the House have, have had or will have family serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, so they appreciate the extent of the anxiety caused to families. I shall ensure that both the hon. Gentleman's points, in respect of a wider statement by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and...

Business of the House (14 Jun 2007)

Jack Straw: ...for thinking that he was. We are all concerned about the fact that our troops need to be properly fed. We may have different anecdotal evidence, but I know a number of people who have served in Iraq—

Business of the House (7 Jun 2007)

Jack Straw: The business for the week commencing 11 June will be as follows: Monday 11 June—Opposition Day [14th Allotted Day]. There will be a debate on an Iraq inquiry, followed by a debate on carers. Both debates arise on an Opposition motion. Tuesday 12 June—Second Reading of the Serious Crime Bill [ Lords]. Wednesday 13 June—Consideration of an allocation of time motion,...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman took a different view on the merits of the Iraq war, but on reflection I do not think that his comments about presenting to this House and the other place legal justification for military action are justified. My right hon. and noble Friend the Attorney-General did come forward at the appropriate time—it needs to be borne in mind that,...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: ...to add instead thereof: "welcomes the precedents set by the Government in 2002 and 2003 in seeking and obtaining the approval of the House for its decisions in respect of military action against Iraq; is of the view that it is inconceivable that any Government would in practice depart from this precedent; taking note of the reports of the Public Administration Select Committee, HC 422 of...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: ...records that there have been 60 British deployments overseas since 1990, some of them minor, but five major—the Gulf war and the deployments in the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq, and, in the 1980s, in the Falklands. In each of the cases before Iraq, Government reported regularly to the House in the form of statements, and the issues were often debated, too. Let me...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: I do not accept that the justification is completely different. Of course I am aware, as all of us are—how could we not be?—of the deficiency of the intelligence in respect of Iraq, but the opinion that Iraq posed a "threat...to international peace and security" by reason of its proliferation of WMD was the opinion of the whole Security Council, unanimously expressed in resolution...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: If I may, I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. I need to make some progress, as I have already been speaking for just under 20 minutes. When, in 2002, military action against Iraq loomed as a possibility, many inside and outside this House demanded that any decision be subject to a substantive resolution by this place. I pay tribute to my late and much-missed friend Robin Cook...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: ...disclosing what amount to his conclusions in respect of that advice—whether, in other words, the conflict was lawful. That was the practice that the Attorney-General adopted in respect of the Iraq war. He answered a parliamentary question in the other place, which I repeated here, and published a briefing document setting out why he believed—and it was his decision, not the...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Armed Conflict (Parliamentary Approval) (15 May 2007)

Jack Straw: ...Defence and I sought to put before the House as much information as possible, including extensive documentation of what the United Nations was deliberating and deciding in respect of its view that Iraq posed that threat to international peace and security. That is the fact of the matter. Yes, there was an argument about whether it was appropriate to take military action, but there was much...

Business of the House (22 Mar 2007)

Jack Straw: We had a debate just a few weeks ago on Iraq, which was led, as is normal, by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary. We also had a very full statement by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on Iraq just a couple of weeks ago.