Results 1-9 of 9 for iraq speaker:Greg Hands

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Greg Hands: ...improve. The PAC report on DFID's operations in insecure environments highlights the need for change. I think that many hon. Members will agree that DFID's performance in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan needs urgent improvement. Its spending in such environments has increased to more than £1 billion, but project success scores in the same environments have fallen while...

Written Answers — Defence: Departmental Training (23 Mar 2009)

Greg Hands: ...for Defence pursuant to the answer of 1 January 2009, Official Report, column 1994W, on departmental training, which Ministers attended the pre-deployment training in preparation for visits to Iraq and Afghanistan; and how much that training cost.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: British Forces (Attacks) (21 Jul 2008) has video

Greg Hands: It appears that Iranian involvement in the insurgency in Iraq is, thankfully, diminishing after the recent effort of Iraqi forces supported by US ground troops, but has the Secretary of State seen any evidence of a change in tactics by Tehran and an increase in Iranian involvement in attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan?

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (28 Apr 2008)

Greg Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future deployment of British forces in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: European Affairs (11 Dec 2007) has video

Greg Hands: ...people involved in oil, diplomacy and so on. Algeria is one of the few countries in the world that does not even have a guidebook. There is no "Lonely Planet" guide to Algeria, nor is there one to Iraq and one or two other countries. The position in Algeria is troubling, and I believe that we should be engaged with it. I wanted to discuss the EU treaty, but it has dominated the debate....

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Greg Hands: Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the complete lack of new Government thinking in either Afghanistan or Iraq? Earlier this year, the length of the conflict in Afghanistan overtook the entire length of the second world war and that of the conflict in Iraq overtook the length of the Great War, yet we seem to be stuck with the strategy that we had two or three years ago.

Abu Hamza (31 Jan 2007)

Greg Hands: ...published a book entitled "Jihad in America", which said: "Many have been asking why doesn't jihad take place in America. I have been asking myself that question ever since I watched the bombing of Iraq, the Sudan and Afghanistan." The first failure by those in authority that I wish to examine concerns Abu Hamza's right-to-buy purchase of his flat on Adie road, Hammersmith. It was the kind...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (7 Nov 2005)

Greg Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British Army vehicles are in operation in Iraq; and how many are fitted with electronic countermeasures.

Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill (1 Nov 2005)

Greg Hands: ...and, to some extent, Zagreb, but they wisely chose not to do so. Both were damaged economically by the sanctions on Yugoslavia—Bulgaria was even hit by a cruise missile—and both helped us out in Iraq. The political leaders and the peoples of the two countries deserve to be congratulated on the progress that they have made in those 15 years. We are grateful for the support they...