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Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Afghanistan and Iraq (2 Jun 2009)

Adam Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what expenditure his Department has incurred in (a) Afghanistan since 2001 and (b) Iraq since 2003; how much his Department has paid to private security companies for services provided in each year in (i) Afghanistan since 2001 and (ii) Iraq since 2003; and what the monetary value of each contract his Department has with...

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

Adam Holloway: ...to do so would undermine the morale of our armed forces, who are committed to battle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Take the example of the United States, which was virtually beaten in Iraq in 2006. By 2008 its armed forces had been radically reformed and it had turned what had looked like defeat in Iraq into near-victory. The Americans engaged in open debate, encouraged...

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

Adam Holloway: ...we invaded Afghanistan and quickly achieved our primary objective of getting rid of al-Qaeda and pleasing the Afghan people by removing the Taliban from power. Then, however, our focus switched to Iraq. The decision to offer UK support to a US invasion was made pretty much alone by the then Prime Minister at the so-called Crawford summit in April 2002. The only thing on Tony Blair's mind...

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

Adam Holloway: Does the Foreign Secretary accept that there are lessons to be learned from Iraq and that there are mistakes that we are repeating? Is it not a shame that even the MOD has binned its internal critique of the conduct of our operations in Iraq?

Sri Lanka: Afghanistan and Pakistan (5 Feb 2009) has video

Adam Holloway: ...world. The new American President has a choice. He can either be a pragmatist or reinforce failure. Failure might look something like this: the Americans send another 30,000 troops, hot-foot from Iraq, in the absence of a political settlement. They then think that the answer is to continue to "clear, hold and build" among a civilian population to whom foreign troops are, in large part, the...

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

Adam Holloway: Although I agree with the hon. Gentleman about abuses on the part of some private security companies, the vast majority have been working in support of the reconstruction of Iraq, filling gaps that our militaries have been unable to fill, so I think that he is being a little hard on those companies.

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

Adam Holloway: We are in danger of becoming dewy-eyed over the debacle in Iraq. In this century, we have never had a serious strategy for dealing with Iraq. That was the case as we went into the war and after the war, and I fear that it is also the case today. The decision to offer UK support to the US invasion was made by the Prime Minister, pretty much alone, in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. The only...

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

Adam Holloway: It is tragic. I was in Iraq in the first war as a soldier and in the second war as a television correspondent. I shall never forget being in Kirkuk as the Iraqi Government were falling. Very few European people were around, and I was literally mobbed. This guy who was in the process of looting two incubators from the hospital came up and hugged me because people were so happy and they wanted...

Topical Debate: Defence Policy (30 Oct 2008) has video

Adam Holloway: ...to consider having some sort of defence policy, and I would have spoken about this at much greater length if my voice were not in this condition. Before we pat ourselves on the back too much about Iraq, let us remember that the biggest single consequence of the invasion of that country is that, in the minds of hundreds of millions of people in the middle east, a crazed extremist called...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Helmand Province (17 Jun 2008)

Adam Holloway: ...Development, the reality in Whitehall was that we were not concentrating on Afghanistan or more generally on al-Qaeda. Instead, we were focusing on a crazy and quite unnecessary invasion of Iraq. Despite our early success in toppling the Taliban, almost everything we did afterwards undermined the massive amount of good will we had across the Muslim world after 9/11. Today, al-Qaeda are no...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (30 Oct 2007)

Adam Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps have been taken by his Department to obtain a full record of the number of aeromedical evacuations and field hospital admissions in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan before 1 January 2006.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations (11 Oct 2007)

Adam Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have received treatment for physical or psychological injuries in the NHS in the last six months.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (18 Jun 2007)

Adam Holloway: What recent assessment he has made of the effect of new counter-insurgency measures in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (18 Jun 2007)

Adam Holloway: A couple of weeks ago the Defence Committee was in Washington and there was considerable interest in what the Prime Minister-elect might do about Iraq. What discussions has the Secretary of State had with the Prime Minister-elect about the future of British troops there?

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Adam Holloway: Our troops are performing magnificently in Iraq and Afghanistan but I fear that they are being let down. In all Departments and, indeed, organisations, the ambitious have a tendency to talk up success and say that things are on target when they know that that is not true. In recent years, that has been especially marked in and around the Ministry of Defence. It almost signifies a cultural...

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Adam Holloway: ...of State, do not get the messages about where the problems are quickly enough. When they do, they are soothed into believing that measures are in place to mitigate them. Deeply regrettably, Iraq is now a done deal in terms of its effect on the perception of the UK by much of the Muslim world and a substantial minority of our own Muslim population. Afghanistan is a noble cause and a...

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

Adam Holloway: I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Sir John Stanley) for his interesting contribution. What strikes me about the situations in Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly Afghanistan, is the Government's lack of candour. A long briefing that the military gave the Defence Committee during its visit last year to Kandahar was very interesting. At the end of it, I bumped...

Points of Order (24 Oct 2006)

Adam Holloway: ...your guidance on reports in The Times that my former employer, ITN, is to have its reporting from war zones restricted by the Ministry of Defence. Given the extreme difficulties in reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan without MOD co-operation, and the importance of the public being allowed access to ITN's first-hand reporting, is it not appropriate that a Minister should come to the House...

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (17 Jul 2006)

Adam Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on the availability of medicine in hospitals in Iraq.

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Troop Deployment (Helmand Province) (21 Jun 2006)

Adam Holloway: ...the murder of thousands of innocent people. One should not invade countries and then run, leaving chaos in one's wake. A stable Afghanistan is in Britain's national interest. Unlike our invasion of Iraq, we had compelling reasons to invade Afghanistan, and for wider strategic reasons we had to play a part in introducing stability and democracy there. As the Minister is aware, during the...