Results 1-20 of 105 for iraq speaker:Tobias Ellwood

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...years after the invasion, we have demonstrated how we might lose the war, wasting half a decade by not providing enough forces, money or leadership—or even agreeing our objectives. As in Iraq, we removed the threat, leaving a power vacuum that the Taliban were quick to exploit. Because of the distraction of Iraq, the west never fully came to terms with the scale of the operation...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Suicide (21 Jul 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many active service personnel are known to have committed suicide following service in either Iraq or Afghanistan since those engagements commenced.

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: ...perspective, need not necessarily be spent by the likes of the Department for International Development or other countries' USAID equivalents. It could be spent by our armed forces. A problem in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the fact that people at the front line who need and could spend the funds, and who understand the situation at hand, are prevented from instigating humanitarian...

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — European Commission Annual Policy Strategy (2 Jul 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: The Minister is new to his portfolio, but he will be well versed on the debates that took place about what to do about Bosnia and the Balkans and about the potential invasion of Iraq in the lead-up to March 2003. Those issues divided Europe hugely. A more fundamental worry is that there is discord between what NATO does and what the EU does, simply because there is Cyprus inside the EU on one...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Helmand Province (30 Jun 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: In the Opposition day debate on Iraq last week, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short), a former Secretary of State for International Development, admitted that she deliberately instructed her Department to have nothing to do with the Ministry of Defence or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the drawing up of reconstruction plans once the war fighting had stopped in...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...arguments, to which I hope the Government have listened. I wish to place on record my concern about what the outcome of the inquiry will be, because some basic schoolboy errors have been made in Iraq that we could learn from. We do not need an inquiry to understand where mistakes have been made, but we are now leaning on one to tell us that. I wonder why the Government are not learning...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...they mean business—that they want to help and then to go home. They do not want to hang around in a conflict zone for six years and watch the security situation deteriorate. What happened in Iraq was appalling, and I am afraid that Whitehall should take the blame for that. As the security situation deteriorated, because nobody bothered to try to fill the power vacuum, who came into...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...the frustration that the military finds, which was echoed by General Robin Brims, who was the commander of 1 (UK) Armoured Division and in charge of the forces in Basra? He said that we went into Iraq and, a month later, it was clear that the looting would start, the gangs would form and the militias would be created because there was no plan for peace. Will the Secretary of State now...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...very much the same people but in a different guise under the EU? Let us understand what the EU can do; it can do certain things well—but Bosnia is one example of where it did not work, and Iraq is another. We need to recognise that there are limits to what large international institutions can achieve. The Galileo project has been mentioned, and what an astonishing waste of money that...

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq: Reconstruction (27 Apr 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: ...the Secretary of State for International Development what his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of programmes funded by his Department to assist the reconstruction and development of Iraq since 2003.

Defence Procurement (20 Apr 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...might be cut by 10,000, that we might be sending 900 more troops to Afghanistan, and that as a result of a strategy change led by President Obama we would examine the Anbar awakening project in Iraq with a view to allowing militias in Afghanistan to be paid to do their own patrolling. Those actions will have huge significance for the way in which we operate the British Army. Will the...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ..."State of Denial", a book by Bob Woodward, famed for Watergate: "On November 21, the day before Thanksgiving, 71 days after the 9/11 attacks, Bush asked Rumsfeld to start updating the war plan for Iraq. 'Let's get started on this,' Bush recalled saying that day. 'And get Tommy Franks'"— General Franks, who is in charge of the United States Central Command— "'looking at what it...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...now been questioned. Any Prime Minister now coming to the House saying, "We must now go to war," will certainly be questioned in more detail. It is all the more clear why we need an inquiry into Iraq. What were the decisions? What evidence was the then Prime Minister seeing that made him come to the House and say, "You must follow me and we must send our armed forces to Iraq"?

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...is, we should plan for what to do if we invade a Muslim country, because if we do not have a plan when we invade, we leave a vacuum and extremists take over. That is exactly what has happened in Iraq and, unfortunately, something very similar is taking place in Afghanistan. There are many questions that need to be answered. First, there are questions about going to war, weapons of mass...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...generals speaking to President Obama, and his big statement has been that it is no longer acceptable simply to defeat the enemy; we also have to enable the local. Do we not need an inquiry into the Iraq war because we have failed so badly to enable the local? Our military did a fantastic job in defeating the enemy, but Government Departments failed to enable the local and to reconstruct...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: International Terrorism (24 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: It is almost six years to the day since the invasion of Iraq. I am sorry that the Home Secretary does not feel that the report should be accurate enough to recognise the mistakes that have been made because of that intervention. I quote from page 23, which says that "in 2003, radical Islamist groups emerged in and travelled to Iraq to take part in what they regarded as a new jihad". Further...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (3 Feb 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 35W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of co-operation between his Department and the Department for International Development during Operation Telic One.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (2 Feb 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of the UK armed forces are working as part of NATO training forces in Iraq.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (2 Feb 2009)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 35W, on Iraq: peace keeping operations, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of co-operation between his Department and the Department for International Development on conflict prevention immediately prior to the invasion of Iraq.

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...disputes that—at least, not on the Conservative Benches. By repeating that, however, he is avoiding telling us why it has taken so long to get to where we are today. Why, when we went into Iraq in the first place with the 7th Armoured Brigade at a time of relative peace, did things deteriorate to a point at which the 4th Battalion The Rifles had to leave with their tails between...