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Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Alistair Burt: ...of and grateful for what our forces have been achieving on our behalf-the universal sentiment of everyone in the House today. In March, the 2nd Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment returned from Iraq, and the soldiers were celebrated by Biggleswade town council on behalf of all my constituents. Their tale is instructive. Two years ago their work as mentors with the Iraqi forces was deemed...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: ...and in villages? Should it say, "We can't attack because there's a disparity in firepower?" That did not stop the NATO allies from attacking Serbia. Disparity in firepower does not stop our work in Iraq and Afghanistan. So what is Israel to do?

Iraq (7 Jun 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...be used by the United States or ourselves to encourage serious progress on the middle east peace talks, given that the road map was so important to us all before the decision to take action against Iraq was announced?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (1 Mar 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: What recent assessment he has made of the security of British troops stationed in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (1 Mar 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: In order to reassure my constituents serving in Iraq and their relatives, it is surely necessary for the Secretary of State to clear up discrepancies about the recent past. Why did servicemen tell "Channel 4 News" that, in the face of anticipated attacks from weapons of mass destruction they were given nuclear, biological and chemical protection kits that were routinely incomplete and gas...

Iraq (Humanitarian Situation) (10 Apr 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...of State confident that the facts on the ground now mean that the first responsibility of aid agencies, regardless of who is actually in control and what the legalities may be, is the people of Iraq? Is she confident that agencies have put aside any concerns that they may have had before the conflict and that they are ready to be engaged on the scale that is necessary to support our forces...

Points of Order (13 Mar 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...aware of any precedent where the immediacy of a demand by a Select Committee has been met by the Government, but where the political urgency of the situation, bearing in mind what is happening in Iraq, has been so woefully misunderstood as to produce a written rather than the imperative oral statement?

Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan) (30 Jan 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...also watch her actions in the next few weeks, as events unfold, and see how much she cares. Whatever one's view of the war and the need for it, the brutal fact is that the situation of refugees in Iraq—internally displaced people—and the breakdown of structures there will not be deciding factors in whether we go to war. Although we all hope that war does not happen, it is...

Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan) (30 Jan 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...to wait for things to happen, but that he and his country cannot afford to do so. He said that if aid arrives now and it turns out that it is not needed for the immediate consequences of war in Iraq, there is no need to worry: it can still be used to assist the 200,000 refugees from the Gulf war who are still in Jordan. I make a plea on the Minister's behalf for aid to be sent urgently to...