Results 1-7 of 7 for iraq speaker:Susan Kramer

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (22 Feb 2007)

Susan Kramer: ...for two years; a ban from being a company director for 10 years; and asset forfeiture of just under £70,000. There was yet another success in 2005-06. The offence was exporting body armour to Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia without a licence. The fine was £10,000, plus £500 costs. In 2006-07, believe it or not, there were two offences for which prosecution was successful and for...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Afghanistan (25 Oct 2006)

Susan Kramer: ...is being spent on security for aid projects rather than on reconstruction and development? Is there not a risk that funds for development will be dissipated on security, just as they have been in Iraq?

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Afghanistan (17 Oct 2006)

Susan Kramer: .... We are exceedingly worried at the slow pace at which that project has advanced. Secondly, as others would agree, Afghanistan has in many ways been a victim of the misguided US-UK adventure in Iraq, which has taken military resources, distracted promised investment in reconstruction and, perhaps most importantly, diverted high-level international attention away from what should have been...

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (26 Jun 2006)

Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid was provided (a) bilaterally and (b) multilaterally to Iraq in (i) 2003, (ii) 2004 and (iii) 2005.

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Darfur Crisis (18 May 2006)

Susan Kramer: ...in the national state assemblies and will be involved in the ministries, but how will those jobs be divided up between the many factions? Has any of that been resolved? We know from the example of Iraq that it is easier to appoint members to a Government than to turn them into a Government. I have also been troubled that whereas the discussions in Abuja pretty much engaged the national and...

Quadripartite Committee Reports (16 Mar 2006)

Susan Kramer: ...and Sweden, parliamentarians assist in the scrutiny of key, sensitive licences. If we remember that the Quadripartite Committee's origin is essentially in Sir Richard Scott's work on arms sales to Iraq, we can see the potential for a Committee to add a great deal to the strength and effectiveness of the overall scrutiny, control and management of arms exports. I encourage the Government to...

Home Affairs and Communities (23 May 2005)

Susan Kramer: ..., she ended up as our spokesperson on international development. It was her work focusing on the humanitarian consequences of war and suffering, and talking about Palestine, Somalia, Sudan and Iraq, with which she made her reputation. Some people say that some of her remarks were divisive, and I did not always agree with what she said. However, I learned a lesson from Jenny that I intend...