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Helmand Province

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Adam Holloway. The answering member was Shahid Malik.
Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the impact of military operations on the development and reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
477 c175-95WH 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for International Development
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Willie Rennie | 477 c184-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure how to follow that excellent contribution, which was rather colourful in places....
Adam Holloway | 477 c183-4WH (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend said is superficially true, but there is a big difference now from the situation...

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Speaker | 477 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be brief.
Julian Brazier | 477 c182-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's speech is most compelling, but surely the point about the great game was that, agai...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 477 c190WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he will be reassured by what we heard during our meeting wit...
Adam Holloway | 477 c190-1WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. One of the big problems is that we do not hear any Afghan voices in muc...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 477 c188-90WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Willie Rennie), who made a...
Adam Holloway | 477 c190WH (Link to this contribution) I was not quite saying that. My point is that we desperately need alternative livelihoods to poppy f...
Speaker | 477 c187WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the hon. Member to draw his remarks to a close in order to give the Opposition Front-Be...
Willie Rennie | 477 c187-8WH (Link to this contribution) Certainly, Mr. Taylor. I am coming to the end of my speech. There are questions whether funds are f...
Adam Holloway | 477 c178WH (Link to this contribution) Of course it is a tragedy, but as I will go on to say, we cannot blame the DFID staff for it. The pr...
Adam Holloway | 477 c178-82WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. To follow on from what my hon. Friend says, it was under huge pressure that DFID put people ...
Adam Holloway | 477 c175-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Taylor. I thank Mr. Speaker for allowing this...
Julian Brazier | 477 c178WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a compelling case. Does he agree that there is a sad degree of repetition i...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 477 c195WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the Minister's argument that we are all working together closely in Helmand, but d...
Shahid Malik | 477 c195WH (Link to this contribution) It would be foolish to suggest that anybody has chapter and verse knowledge of everything in Afghani...
Shahid Malik | 477 c195WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that I will, because time is against us. As I have said, we know that we have a long...
Speaker | 477 c195WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must move on to the next debate.
Adam Holloway | 477 c194WH (Link to this contribution) I am dismayed; we have heard all this before. This is the ““good news only”” stuff. When will the Go...
Shahid Malik | 477 c192-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am coming to Helmand. In Helmand, the impact of military operations is that they are setting the ...
Shahid Malik | 477 c194-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has heard it before, but that was not clear from his contributi...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 477 c191WH (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend makes a valuable point. When I returned to Lashkar Gah some 18 months after ...
Shahid Malik | 477 c192WH (Link to this contribution) I accept that Afghanistan is an extremely challenging place for all who are there trying to make it ...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 477 c192WH (Link to this contribution) The figures that the Minister has given are for Afghanistan. Can he give us figures for education an...
Shahid Malik | 477 c191-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to engage in this debate under your stewardship, Mr. Taylor. I congratulate the hon...
Adam Holloway | 477 c192WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for acknowledging that, but will he also acknowledge that senior people in the ...
Subjects
Armed forces
Deployment
Police
Peacekeeping operations
Politics and government
Security
Afghanistan
Civil disorder
Reconstruction
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