Results 1-4 of 4 for iraq speaker:Derek Wyatt

Zimbabwe (1 Jul 2004)

Mr Derek Wyatt: ...part, would there be a serious problem for the area. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster are keen to hold our Government to account over Iraq, and rightly so; however, I wish that they would also consider their statements, comments and positions on Zimbabwe. They have a particular opportunity, even now at this late stage, to come...

Pensions Bill (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Derek Wyatt: ...on how to resolve the retrospective element of the occupational pensions funding crisis. Miraculously, we could find £2.6 billion for foot and mouth and another £3 billion for an unnecessary war in Iraq. We overspend on every major computer contract in Whitehall, but we simply cannot find £100 million a year over perhaps 25 years for our workers who have given their lives...

Occupational Pensions (23 Oct 2003)

Mr Derek Wyatt: ...new. We are not asking for next year's Bill to be retrospective because we understand the moral hazard that that might create. However, we ask the Government to think about the cost of the Iraq war—it probably cost the Exchequer £2 billion. What was cost of foot and mouth—probably between £2 billion and £3 billion? What was cost of Creutzfeldt-Jakob...

Zimbabwe (15 Jul 2003)

Mr Derek Wyatt: ...does nothing to stop that. If the perpetrators are not prosecuted and there is no investigation, there is a breakdown and we have a failed state. If it is right to bring about regime change in Iraq, it is also right to consider Zimbabwe in that context. We should not back away from the matter or be embarrassed about our colonial past. We are talking about the most disgraceful abuse of...