Results 1-16 of 16 for iraq speaker:Mark Francois

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Legal Systems (12 Jan 2009)

Mark Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Prime Minister's statement of 18 December 2008 on Iraq, what legal protection UK forces will have under either international or Iraqi domestic law if the draft law on the status of UK forces currently before the Iraq Parliament is not brought into effect by 1 January 2009.

Deferred Division: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Mark Francois: ...now left in the unenviable position of seeing an unpopular Prime Minister at the fag-end of his premiership playing games with our birthright in a desperate search for any legacy at all other than Iraq. We are witnessing what amounts to a deception of the British people as a result. Even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who led the original constitutional convention that devised the original...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 63 (24 May 2007)

Mark Francois: ...the Secretary of State for Defence. Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said in an MOD press release of 1 March 2007 that the bonus is to be paid at present to “those serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.” What criteria will be used to judge whether future deployments will qualify? For instance, why were the Balkans included but not...

Written Answers — Treasury: Iraq and Afghanistan (29 Jan 2007)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2007, Official Report, column 421W, on Iraq and Afghanistan, how much he expects the Ministry of Defence to draw down from the Reserve to cover the cost of military operations in 2006-07.

Written Answers — Treasury: Iraq and Afghanistan (29 Jan 2007)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2007, Official Report, column 421W, on Iraq and Afghanistan, whether the £600 million he referred to in his 2006 pre-Budget statement is additional to the £800 million he referred to in his 2006 Budget statement.

Written Answers — Treasury: Iraq and Afghanistan (8 Jan 2007)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the reason is for the change in the amount he allocated to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan between the 2006 Budget and the 2006 Pre-Budget Report.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (6 Jun 2005)

Mark Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many reservists are deployed in Iraq.

Public Bill Committee: Child Benefit Bill: New clause 1 - Regulations made by the Treasury: voluntary work and work experience (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Mark Francois: ...Whips Office, so I know that such work is both interesting and challenging. I whipped my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester for a time, so I confess that I knew the answer to the question on Iraq even before the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West posed it. Nevertheless, it can be busy in the Whips Office—important work goes on behind the scenes—so I acknowledge that...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr Mark Francois: ...things had happened to her once when she dashed out of the shower for a Division. She also paid tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) and his military service in Iraq. I would like to amplify everything that she said and to pay tribute to the time that he spent in the service of his country. I shall seek to follow some of the apposite remarks that he...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr Mark Francois: With all his experience of matters in Iraq, does my hon. Friend agree that it makes no sense to reduce the number of infantry battalions in the Regular Army when even the United States army—the most powerful army in the world—calls for a British infantry battalion to go and help it when it is in trouble?

Military Situation in Iraq (9 Sep 2003)

Mr Mark Francois: ...the House has been in recess for two months, the Opposition have done the House a service by using their time to provide the debate today, thus allowing the House to discuss the latest situation in Iraq? Members on both sides of the House have welcomed that opportunity. On the point about overstretch, the hon. Gentleman is right that the Opposition have supported the deployment of troops,...

Armed Forces Personnel (12 Jun 2003)

Mr Mark Francois: ...at least a suggestion that this might come to pass. With all the pressure that exists on the tour plot, and all the demands made on our regular Army, and in particular the infantry battalions—Iraq is a classic example—there can be no logic whatever in seeking to reduce the number that would be available for service around the globe. The demand is tremendous: even earlier today...

Armed Forces Personnel (12 Jun 2003)

Mr Mark Francois: The hon. Gentleman made considerable play of the pressure that the Army is under because of our continuing commitment in Iraq. One of the reasons why it is under such pressure is that great demand exists for British troops, particularly infantry units, in exactly such situations, because, bluntly, they are so good at that kind of work. If the hon. Gentleman agrees with that, as I think he...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Mark Francois: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons programme in the early 1980s and that the main reason that it did not develop the nuclear bomb was that its nuclear reactor at Osirak was destroyed by military action?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Mark Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to ensure long-term stability in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Business of the House (21 Nov 2002)

Mr Mark Francois: On Monday, the House will debate the very serious prospect of going to war with Iraq. However, yesterday, there was an official Ministry of Defence press conference at which the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff were publicly at variance about the degree of strain placed on the armed forces by having both to prepare for that conflict and to cover for the...