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Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Building our Common Future (6 Jul 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: ...few years, I have seen for myself the impressive work done by DFID staff in a number of conflict-affected countries—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Burma, the Somalia border, Iraq, Afghanistan and the west bank—and I pay tribute to DFID's brave staff, who put themselves in harm's way in those places. One thing that has emerged from those visits is the intense...

Written Answers — International Development: Departmental Public Expenditure (9 Mar 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: ...statement of 12 February 2009, Official Report, columns 100-01WS, on departmental expenditure limits, what the (a) nature and (b) location of the work undertaken by locally-engaged staff in Iraq in respect of which his Department plans to transfer £300,000 to the Ministry of Defence was.

Royal Assent: International Aid Transparency (13 Nov 2008) has video

Andrew Mitchell: ..., which made that very point. Last month, the National Audit Office report on the Department's performance in insecure environments revealed evidence of serious corruption in DFID projects in Iraq and poor project design and performance in Afghanistan. It found that only half the DFID projects in the most insecure countries achieve their aims and that almost a quarter suffer from fraud and...

European Council/Libya (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: Will the Prime Minister bear it in mind that many of us who strongly support his stand on terrorism and on giving the opportunity of democracy to the people of Iraq are concerned that he has set his face so firmly at this point against a referendum on the European constitution, although the issues are potentially far more significant than anything entailed in the Maastricht treaty, with the...

Iraq (15 Jul 2003)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...earlier this week, is the right hon. Gentleman yet in a position to tell the House which countries will be sending members of the team of experts that will pave the way for elections in Iraq?

Iraq (12 May 2003)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...as to what we are to make of the statement of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) that the Prime Minister's assurance on the establishment of a legitimate Government in Iraq has been breached?

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (9 Apr 2003)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...services. Meanwhile, national prosperity is driven by productivity, which is damaged by continuous increases in tax and Government spending. The next election will be won not on the battlefields of Iraq and Basra, but on the Government's performance on public services. Labour has blown billions earned by hard-working families; ordinary people who have been fleeced by a bunch of Labour...

Refugee Benefits (26 Feb 2003)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) is attending the debate, and she and I were on the radio earlier this morning, telling our constituents in the midlands about today's debate on Iraq. She supported the amendment to today's motion, while I supported the Prime Minister, and the Opposition will support him in very large measure later today. We will do so because he is right,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (16 Apr 2002)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: But is it not obvious, as the Foreign Secretary said, that Iraq represents an enormous clear and present danger, not only to neighbouring countries in the middle east and the Muslim population to which he referred, but very much to this country and western Europe? Will he, as far as he can, cause to be published detailed evidence of the development of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Is...

Orders of the Day — The Gulf (22 Feb 1991)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: While any positive sign of change from Baghdad is to be welcomed, is it not clear that the Iraqi regime is speaking with two distinct and different voices at this time? Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that there is no justification whatever for changing the coalition strategy before we have incontrovertible evidence that all the United Nations resolutions are being implemented in full...