Results 1-20 of 74 for iraq speaker:Don Touhig

Malaysia Campaign Veterans (11 Dec 2007)

Don Touhig: ...of Britain today. The care we show them, or in some cases the lack it, cannot fail to impact upon the morale of today's servicemen and women deployed around the world, including those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to draw attention to the disgraceful treatment of the 35,000 veterans who took part in operations in Malaysia from 1957 to 1966. The Malaysia campaign saw British and...

Malaysia Campaign Veterans (11 Dec 2007)

Don Touhig: ...sense of justice by allowing the Malaysia veterans to wear the PJM. Then we could send a message to those who served our country in the past, but also to those who are serving our country now in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas around the world. They would understand that we will always honour, cherish and care for them. We must grasp this chance to deliver justice for the Malaysia veterans.

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007) has video

Don Touhig: ...enable that project to proceed. It is vital for our servicemen and women to know that they have full support and understanding back home for the difficult and dangerous work that we ask of them in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our armed forces need to feel valued, supported and thanked for all they do. I find it amazing that some, even in this House and perhaps in the other place, draw the...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007) has video

Don Touhig: .... As long as Iran—I was heartened to hear what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said about it— continues to supply weapons, training and funding to extremists operating in Iraq, and to Hezbollah and others in Lebanon, that will prove impossible. Sooner or later, the Iranian regime will have to face a choice. Either it must form a constructive partnership with the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Don Touhig: I welcome the announcement that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made on 8 October on Iraq, which will see troop numbers reduced to about 2,500 by next spring. The decision was made possible only as a result of the fantastic efforts of British troops who have helped to train 13,000 members of the Iraqi army. I was saddened that instead of welcoming that news, the Opposition took the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Don Touhig: The public will judge the Conservatives' reaction on that day; I have no doubt that a harsh judgment will be made on that party. The conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has meant that we are asking servicemen and women to do more than ever before, placing greater demands on them and their families. In return, therefore, we have to take on board an even greater duty to support them. I have always...

Points of Order: Armed Forces Personnel (21 Jun 2007)

Don Touhig: ...the end of the Falklands war. I join colleagues in all parts of the House in paying tribute to the courage of our forces who liberated the Falklands and those who continue to serve our country in Iraq and Afghanistan. The commemoration of the Falklands conflict puts into focus the way in which we in Britain look at former service personnel—our veterans. Like many others, I was...

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Don Touhig: The British armed forces make a huge contribution to international efforts to improve security and peace around the world. When all the press coverage focuses on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is easy to forget that there are also significant deployments of our forces in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Cyprus. It is not just on major operations that our armed forced make a valuable...

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Don Touhig: Once again in these past weeks, the continued violence in Iraq has dominated the news coverage from that unhappy and miserable land. Sectarian violence, murder, the killing of innocent civilians and the death of coalition troops have been reported daily. It must seem to the Iraqis and the people here at home who watch those images on their televisions each night that there is no end in sight....

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Don Touhig: The reconstruction of Iraq is vital to its future, so our contribution is important, and I hope to develop that argument. People in Baghdad live in fear of even more violence and bloodshed—a fact that was recently brought home to me by my constituents, Talib and Dianne Elam, who received news on Christmas day that their 72-year-old uncle had been shot and died from his wounds when...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Syria (16 Jan 2007)

Don Touhig: ..., Talib and Dianne Elam, was shot and died when American troops attacked his house in Baghdad. The family are Kurdish, suffered terribly under Saddam, and strongly support our intervention in Iraq and the new Iraqi Government. They are now desperate to find out the circumstances surrounding their uncle's death. Will my hon. Friend raise the issue with our American allies and ask them to...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Don Touhig: ...often felt that the present US Administration sometimes saw us as a client first and as a friend second. I have certainly felt that about some of the aspects of how we have handled the conflict in Iraq. We entered the conflict with a plan for war, but the sad truth is that the US-led coalition had no plan for the peace. President Bush has been given a pretty powerful reminder of that in...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Don Touhig: ...the right hon. Gentleman's point. Notwithstanding the events in Lebanon in the past 24 hours and the nuclear ambitions of Iran, those two countries could play as much of a role in creating a stable Iraq as they are now playing in destabilising it by fomenting terror and strife. We engaged in the Iraq conflict without, I believe, a clear plan B. We won the conflict, removed Saddam and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Iraq and Afghanistan Update (10 Oct 2006)

Don Touhig: ...about the new payments; this underpins the value agenda, which is so important. We as a country have to demonstrate how much we value our servicemen and women. Our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are often under critical scrutiny, some of it very unfair, and his statement today on the new payments will do more to boost their morale than anything else that he could have done.

Orders of the Day: Schedule 17 — Repeals and revocations (22 May 2006)

Don Touhig: ...is the peculiar and special position of those who join our armed forces. Sometimes, they make the ultimate sacrifice. We have again recently mourned the deaths of our young servicemen and women in Iraq. Parliament and the armed forces demand high standards of behaviour from our forces, whether overseas on operations or training at home. Discipline is essential and service law is essential...

Orders of the Day: Clause 116 — Referral of case following investigation by service or civilian police (22 May 2006)

Don Touhig: ...and the other place must be careful about giving credence to half-innuendos that affect the morale of our people. It is all right for us sitting on these comfortable green Benches; we are not in Iraq tonight.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (4 May 2006)

Don Touhig: The Iraq medal is a Ministry of Defence medal. Civilian personnel serving in Iraq are eligible to receive the medal, provided they are sent to Iraq by the Ministry of Defence; work in direct support of the military, and meet the stipulated eligibility criteria.

Army Barracks (Deaths) (3 May 2006)

Don Touhig: ...-support and counter-terrorist operations, to a range of roles supporting the UK civilian community. That training bears fruit time and again in theatres of operation throughout a turbulent world: Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and the Balkans are all recent examples. But we must not and cannot be complacent. Many comments in today's discussion have focused on the review conducted by...

Written Answers — Defence: Military Medals (3 May 2006)

Don Touhig: ... 7 February 1983 9 March 1984 Mine Clearance (Gulf of Suez) 15 August 1984 15 October 1984 Gulf 17 November 1986 28 February 1989 Kuwait 8 March 1991 30 September 1991 Northern Iraq/Southern Turkey 6 April 1991 17 July 1991 Air Operations Iraq RESINATE South 16 July 1991 18 March 2003 Air Operations Iraq RESINATE North 16 July 1991 30 April 2003 Medals...

Written Answers — Defence: Gulf Veterans (25 Apr 2006)

Don Touhig: ...Assessment Programme since 1993, is 3,445. This figure includes 3,275 veterans of the 1991 Gulf Conflict (Operation Granby), 136 Porton Down Volunteers, and 34 veterans of the current operation in Iraq (Operation Telic). The figures for each year since 1993 are further broken down as follows: Op Granby Porton Down Op Telic 1993 2 — — 1994 56 — —...