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Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Afghanistan: Entry Clearances (9 Oct 2008)

Paddy Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he plans to extend the scheme of entry clearance operating for locally employed staff in Iraq to similar staff in Afghanistan.

Deferred Division No. 85: Easter Adjournment (29 Mar 2007)

Paddy Tipping: ...recycling. I feel that I have been recycled into this job; after six years, perhaps I am a bit rusty. We heard 10 speakers cover a wide range of subjects, including international issues such as Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Europe. We also heard about the smaller but important question of the quality of local cheeses. I am not going to get into that, nor will I get drawn into a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iraq (23 May 2006)

Paddy Tipping: I warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary to her new post. I welcome, too, the formation of the first broadly based elected Government in Iraq. It has been a long process. Will she commit to stay with the task, however difficult, until democratic renewal is finally achieved?

Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords] (10 May 2004)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...would be very worried if by 2020 or 2025, 70 per cent. of our energy needs were supplied from abroad, 90 per cent. of which were gas. The events of 11 September have changed the world. The war in Iraq has shown that diplomacy cannot solve everything. We will face difficulties if our renewables targets are not met and if we are so heavily dependent on gas. Hon. Friends have pointed out...

Hatfield Colliery (28 Jan 2004)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...70 per cent. of which will be imported. In the context of the diplomacy mentioned in the White Paper—the need to make international connections—we need only look at what has happened in Iraq recently. We need to remember the lessons of 11 September. It would be a fundamental mistake to be so dependent on gas in 10 years' time. There is, however, a wider argument: the coal...

Oral Answers to Questions — President of the Council: Iraq (29 Mar 1999)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...on 1 March be drawn to the attention of the relevant Foreign Office Ministers. However, the Government's position remains the same: that there is no need to set up a specific Select Committee on Iraq, when the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Select Committee on Defence are already able to examine issues relating to the Government's policies toward that country.

Business of the House (4 Mar 1999)

Mr Paddy Tipping: .... Friend was here earlier for the private notice question, but some of the points that he made—particularly about the safety of our airmen—were covered fairly extensively at that time. Iraq has been discussed in one way or another on every day this week in the House, and I suspect that hon. Members, such as my hon. Friend, will use opportunities to raise the issue further. I...