Results 1-20 of 59 for iraq speaker:Hugh Robertson

Business of the House (17 May 2007)

Hugh Robertson: ...House ask the Secretary of State for Defence to give some thought to the media handling of individual service deployments? It is surely wrong that the deployment of any young serviceman or woman to Iraq should become a matter of public debate. If one thing emerges from the sorry events of recent months, it should be that they never happen again.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (28 Mar 2006)

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British soldiers are awaiting their Iraq campaign medals following active service tours of that country in 2004.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (14 Mar 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: Earlier, the Secretary of State drew the House's attention to the number of foreign fighters operating in Iraq, many of whom get there across the border with Syria. What practical measures are being taken to seal that border where possible—for example, with electronic surveillance—and how have such measures been affected by recent events in Damascus?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (21 Feb 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to his statement of 31 January 2005, Official Report, columns 573–91, on Iraq, what the nationality was of the insurgents detained in Iraq for offences in connection with the elections.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: But does the Secretary of State agree that from a soldier's point of view, there is no greater threat to the status of UK forces in Iraq than the decision to prosecute through the civil courts a soldier whose case had been dismissed under military law by his own commanding officer? As the Secretary of State must realise, that crucially undermines the whole system of military justice, so what...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what investigations have taken place into allegations of misappropriation of oil during the period of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the next stage of the Volker Inquiry into the oil for food scandal in Iraq to report.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment the British embassy in (a) Damascus and (b) Tehran has made of (i) the reaction of the regimes in (A) Syria and (B) Iran to the recent elections in Iraq and (ii) the implication for relations between each country and Iraq in the future.

Iraq (31 Jan 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...and Tehran of the reaction of the regimes in Syria and Iran to yesterday's election? How does the Foreign Office think that the election will affect relations between those two countries and Iraq?

Business of the House (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: The report of the Iraq survey group and the initial report of the Volker inquiry both highlighted the extent of corruption at the United Nations during the oil-for-food scandal. Given that we now know that Saddam Hussein and his personal entourage benefited to the tune of $10 billion from that corruption and that the Secretary of State for Defence in this House has made a link between that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (25 Jan 2005)

Mr Hugh Robertson: As the Minister said, the Iraq survey group report highlighted the link between corruption at the UN during the oil-for-food scandal and the current security situation in Iraq. Does the Foreign Office believe that responsibility for that scandal rests inside the UN itself, owing to a lack of accountability and transparency, or with the countries of the Security Council, who knew that it was...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...United Nations during the oil-for-food programme. The conduct of the United Nations is clearly primarily a matter for the Foreign Office, but it is the impact that it is having on the insurgency in Iraq, and on members of the coalition and the Iraqis, that gives it its military dimension and thus its immediacy. The oil-for-food scandal is, by anyone's judgment, a hugely complex and...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (9 Nov 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government are taking to ensure independent monitoring of the forthcoming elections in Iraq.

EU Summit (8 Nov 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: Did the Prime Minister have any discussions with other European Heads of State about the attitudes of countries bordering Iraq? Is there any evidence that any of those countries are providing men and equipment to the rebels in Falluja?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (4 Nov 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what role the Government plan for the UN in ensuring independent monitoring of the forthcoming elections in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Nov 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...implicated will have retired. Given the implications of that scandal for the urgently needed reform of the United Nations and the fact that money from the programme is subsidising the insurgency in Iraq that is threatening the lives of British servicemen and women and British civilians, why did the Prime Minister not raise the issue in any way with the Secretary-General during his visit to...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the oral statement of the Secretary of State for Defence of 18 October 2004, Official Report, column 642, on UK forces (Iraq), what assessment he has made of the effect of alleged corruption at the UN during the Oil for Food Programme on the current insurgency in Iraq.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Oil for Food Programme (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: To ask the Prime Minister when he last discussed the alleged corruption at the UN during the Oil for Food Programme in Iraq in person with the Secretary General of the UN.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (26 Oct 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he had with the Secretary General of the UN during his visit to London on 19 October on alleged corruption at the UN during the Oil for Food Programme in Iraq.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Kofi Annan (25 Oct 2004)

Mr Hugh Robertson: ...the Prime Minister what discussions he had with the Secretary General of the UN during his visit to London on 19 October 2004 over alleged corruption at the UN during the Oil for food programme in Iraq.