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Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence

Queen's speech debate on Monday, 23 November 2009, in the House of Commons, led by David Miliband. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.
Queen's speech debate (third day) on foreign and commonwealth affairs and defence.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
501 c262-372 
Session
2009-10
Department
Ministry of Defence
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 501 c295 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I inform all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 12-minute limit o...
Ed Davey | 501 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and the question is how we achieve that. If we have a full-front...

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Paul Rowen | 501 c288 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary, answering my earlier question, rightly stated that the terrorist bombings in ...
Ed Davey | 501 c287-8 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with the right hon. Gentleman, who is absolutely right. That is why we need t...
Denis MacShane | 501 c287 (Link to this contribution) I support much of the hon. Gentleman's analysis, but is he aware that the four last general manoeuvr...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c285 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must now conclude my remarks. We hope that there is a successful Commonwealth Hea...
Ed Davey | 501 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) When we debate foreign and defence policy today, the thoughts and feelings of us all will be with ou...
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c286 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not understand that the grave risk attached to the McChrystal strategy of ex...
Adam Price | 501 c286 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is right, and a new strategy is being developed by the Government, does he not...
Ed Davey | 501 c286 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. So that there can be no doubt or confusion, let me spell out in more detail the change i...
Ivan Lewis | 501 c291 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that the Liberal Democrats were conducting a review.
Ed Davey | 501 c291 (Link to this contribution) We have said that we would not replace Trident with a like-for-like submarine system. As the Ministe...
Ed Davey | 501 c292 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal Democrats are indeed conducting a review, and that is what we are urging the Government ...
Patrick Mercer | 501 c289 (Link to this contribution) Surely an extremely eminent British former lieutenant-general has just been appointed to do precisel...
Ed Davey | 501 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of it, and I will come to Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb in a second. Given my welco...
Paul Flynn | 501 c290 (Link to this contribution) Given the honourable record of the hon. Gentleman's party on Afghanistan, is he embarrassed that his...
Ed Davey | 501 c290 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I am completely at one with my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (...
Kim Howells | 501 c290 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman take it from me that after a particularly fierce battle to the west of Kanda...
Ivan Lewis | 501 c291 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the hon. Gentleman has said about the NPT, but will he clarify one point? ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c281 (Link to this contribution) It may very well happen, but the matter will not come up for a few years now, so it is not exactly a...
Mike Gapes | 501 c281 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Foreign Secretary has remarked on the two posts of President of the Council of Ministers ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c281 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes), the Chairman of the Select Committee on...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c280-1 (Link to this contribution) Oh, there may be a 13th. The most recent Europe Minister, Baroness Kinnock, lasted only a few month...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c279-80 (Link to this contribution) I think that is enough from the right hon. Gentleman. Marginalised he will remain. The Foreign Secr...
Daniel Kawczynski | 501 c284 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c284 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary's answer was not quite that it is just a domestic matter, because it is of cou...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 501 c283-4 (Link to this contribution) May I put to the right hon. Gentleman the same question that I put to the Foreign Secretary about th...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c284 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with the sense of outrage felt in this country and in many others about what h...
Nicholas Winterton | 501 c284 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that Mugabe has totally dismissed a decision by the SADC tribunal. How much longer will ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c281-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to spell out who to the right hon. Gentleman, because I should like him now to keep f...
Andrew Mackinlay | 501 c282 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be fairer to Serbia if we made it clear now that one other condition, which the right h...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) That would certainly need to be formally or tacitly agreed in some way. We all want all the countrie...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c278-9 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is shaking his head, so the decision was clearly made after a few moments but ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c279 (Link to this contribution) Oh, here is someone who missed out on being the High Representative—the right hon. Member for Rother...
Denis MacShane | 501 c279 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the last point—that the Foreign Secretary should sit in this House. We alway...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c279 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I very much had contacts with the ruling centre-right parties and the ruling socialist parties ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c278 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that we—or Ministers, actually—have argued that any of the situations in Afghanistan ...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 501 c339-41 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do, and I found the excuse for that situation—that the wording of the resolution was partial—...
Patrick Mercer | 501 c341-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews); as usual, ...
Paul Flynn | 501 c342 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of sending British forces into Pakistan?
Patrick Mercer | 501 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) Pakistan is a sovereign country. British and allied forces are already involved on the borders of Pa...
David Anderson | 501 c343-6 (Link to this contribution) Earlier tonight we heard from my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) about the...
Christopher Chope | 501 c346-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson) on being an authentic voice of old, red-fl...
Paul Flynn | 501 c349-52 (Link to this contribution) ""I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it… I be...
Anne Milton | 501 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) On occasions such as this, I am always struck by the number of constituents who contact me about for...
Jo Swinson | 501 c353 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to what the hon. Lady is saying with great interest, and she is absolutely right abou...
Anne Milton | 501 c353-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is welcome, and I have to give some praise to the Government on this: progress in this count...
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c339 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend not find it absolutely extraordinary that although somebody with the...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 501 c338-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege, as always, to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir M...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 501 c335-8 (Link to this contribution) I must begin with an apology. I was unable to be present for a large part of the debate owing to Sel...
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c332-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to have this debate on foreign policy, and to some extent I was relieved w...
Malcolm Moss | 501 c331-2 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to the end of my remarks and have only a few minutes left. The appointment by President...
Malcolm Moss | 501 c329-31 (Link to this contribution) It is normally a pleasure to follow in the footsteps of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (M...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 501 c326-9 (Link to this contribution) I very much want to continue the debate where the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples) lef...
Adam Price | 501 c323-6 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick), I want to concentrate on the war in Afghanist...
David Winnick | 501 c321-3 (Link to this contribution) It is on the latter remarks about Afghanistan where I agree with the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Av...
David Winnick | 501 c315 (Link to this contribution) I hope to make a speech on this issue if I catch the eye of the occupant of the Chair. Meanwhile, ma...
Derek Twigg | 501 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that information. I hope that President Obama will indeed decide to put ...
Lord Maples | 501 c317-21 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some interesting speeches on Afghanistan. The hon. Member for Halton (Derek Twigg) and...
Derek Twigg | 501 c315-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that. As my hon. Friend will have heard, some have argued that it will take 30 years...
Derek Twigg | 501 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) about the state in which...
David Davis | 501 c310-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege, as always, to follow the right hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd), but I am...
Lord Beamish | 501 c314 (Link to this contribution) I was in Musa Qala last week. The bazaar is flourishing and development is taking place, but I was t...
Ann Clwyd | 501 c308-10 (Link to this contribution) We have heard much this afternoon, particularly from the Liberal Democrats, of the virtues of taking...
John Stanley | 501 c306-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells), who we on the Foreign...
Speaker | 501 c298 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman's time is up.
Mike Gapes | 501 c298 (Link to this contribution) I wish to conclude on this matter by saying very clearly that serious questions need to be answered ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 501 c304 (Link to this contribution) The significance of what my right hon. Friend wrote and is saying derives not from the fact that he ...
Kim Howells | 501 c302-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir Malcol...
Malcolm Rifkind | 501 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me answer the hon. Gentleman by making the following point. We did not go to Afghanistan to deal...
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c301 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to everything that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said. British,...
Speaker | 501 c298 (Link to this contribution) Order. I suggested that perhaps the contribution that the hon. Gentleman had quoted was rather long....
Kim Howells | 501 c304-6 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not making this speech or writing anything on behalf of the Intelligence and Security...
Ed Davey | 501 c292-5 (Link to this contribution) Many others have interpreted the position slightly differently, and we have been talking to those pe...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c292 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the introduction of a new nuclear weapons system would itself constitute a breach ...
Mike Gapes | 501 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome some aspects of the Queen's speech, particularly the international development spending Bi...
Mike Gapes | 501 c296-8 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there are big problems. Another problem is the continued failure of the Zimbabwe Gover...
Nicholas Winterton | 501 c296 (Link to this contribution) Is the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee aware that Mr. Mugabe and ZANU-PF have recently com...
Speaker | 501 c298 (Link to this contribution) Order. ... Order. The hon. Gentleman is an experienced Member and is aware that quotations from let...
Mike Gapes | 501 c298 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, the concluding sentence of the letter expresses the hope that""the TCI will co...
Anne Main | 501 c361 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for that intervention. Given his comments on the first Army board of ...
Anne Main | 501 c361 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that Major Bristow has been removed from desk duty, and is now in Baghdad, doing exactl...
Nicholas Winterton | 501 c361-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be called to speak in what has been an excellent debate, albeit at the tail end. T...
David Winnick | 501 c356 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alistair Burt | 501 c356-8 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's desire to intervene, but we are now very short of time for other c...
Anne Main | 501 c358-61 (Link to this contribution) I should like to start with some words that the Government would rather were not heard. I say that b...
Bob Ainsworth | 501 c361 (Link to this contribution) If any impartial study were made of the first board of inquiry, the coroner's report, my actual comm...
Alistair Burt | 501 c355-6 (Link to this contribution) These debates always bring out two things: first, the immense amount of knowledge that colleagues ha...
Speaker | 501 c355 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I inform the House that I have been advised that the winding-up speeches will commence at...
Bob Ainsworth | 501 c369 (Link to this contribution) That is why it is not in this country's interests to adopt the policies of the Conservative party, w...
Bob Ainsworth | 501 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) I have even less time than the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox). We have had an excellent, wide...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 501 c369 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman did not get an answer to his question, but if he had asked the same questio...
Bob Ainsworth | 501 c370-2 (Link to this contribution) We have been in discussions with the American Administration at every level—Prime Minister to Presid...
Bob Ainsworth | 501 c370 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid that I have very little time. The operations of NATO and other coalition allies in ...
Liam Fox | 501 c366-8 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we set out benchmarks by which we will be able to determine success, so that ou...
Adam Price | 501 c366 (Link to this contribution) If our allies are so concerned about timetables, why did President Obama, in his interview about Afg...
Liam Fox | 501 c364-6 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very good debate, and I apologise to Members from all parts of the House if the pres...
Speaker | 501 c266 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman is a very experienced Member and knows that we cannot have sedentary...
John Baron | 501 c264 (Link to this contribution) Despite not having supported our initial involvement in Afghanistan, I agree with the Government tha...
David Miliband | 501 c266 (Link to this contribution) If my right hon. Friend refers back to the Prime Minister's speech at the Mansion House last Monday,...
David Miliband | 501 c265 (Link to this contribution) Put simply, because the Afghan national army and associated security forces are being built up from ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 501 c265 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has clearly said that one of the criteria for keeping British troops in Afghanist...
David Miliband | 501 c265 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman takes congratulations on his intervention from those sitting two Benches b...
Harry Cohen | 501 c265 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree with the report in a newspaper last week that if foreign forces, inc...
David Miliband | 501 c264 (Link to this contribution) It is very important to be clear about this. Members on both sides of the House have supported a Bri...
John Baron | 501 c265 (Link to this contribution) With respect, the Foreign Secretary still has not explained the contradiction: on the one hand, the ...
David Miliband | 501 c266 (Link to this contribution) What the Prime Minister was setting out was a matter of common sense. The actions of the Afghan Gove...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 501 c266 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary accept that it is a question of not just President Karzai but political f...
David Miliband | 501 c267 (Link to this contribution) There is a very obvious answer to that: first, the Pashtun are on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan ...
David Miliband | 501 c268 (Link to this contribution) The multiple insurgencies in Pakistan reflect the whole history of the region, especially that of th...
Paul Rowen | 501 c268 (Link to this contribution) The point here is that there is now terrorist bombing in the Punjab, which is the heart of Pakistan....
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c267 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend at all concerned about reports in today's newspapers that the United States ...
David Miliband | 501 c267 (Link to this contribution) I have not seen the reports to which my hon. Friend has referred, but I do not think that the parall...
Peter Tapsell | 501 c267 (Link to this contribution) Why does the right hon. Gentleman think that the Taliban, who for many years have been confined to t...
David Miliband | 501 c264 (Link to this contribution) I think I have said to my hon. Friend on a number of occasions that President Karzai's commitment is...
Paul Flynn | 501 c264 (Link to this contribution) Could not President Karzai give my right hon. Friend proof of his sincerity to end corruption by mak...
David Miliband | 501 c262-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to open today's debate, and I apologise that a prior diplomatic engagement means that I...
Adam Price | 501 c263 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that, last month, the Dutch Parliament held a vote following a d...
David Miliband | 501 c263 (Link to this contribution) I think you made it clear, Mr. Speaker, in response to the point of order raised by my right hon. Fr...
David Miliband | 501 c263-4 (Link to this contribution) As I think the hon. Gentleman will know from the recent Command Paper in respect of provision for ar...
Andrew Mackinlay | 501 c278 (Link to this contribution) But in reality we have not tested the military advice. People have been told that when General McChr...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c278 (Link to this contribution) Again, it would be surprising if British troops were not working with an increased number of America...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 501 c278 (Link to this contribution) What is the shadow Foreign Secretary's response to the suggestion that, although British troops are ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c277 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox), or anyone else, can recall th...
Harry Cohen | 501 c277 (Link to this contribution) What counsel does the shadow Foreign Secretary want the British Government to give to President Obam...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c277 (Link to this contribution) If the principal countries with a military presence in Afghanistan named a date, it would change the...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c277 (Link to this contribution) There should be regular statements—we have always asked for quarterly reports—to the House on Afghan...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 501 c276-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House hopes the shadow Foreign Secretary will get answers from the Defence ...
David Miliband | 501 c270 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, as I must make some progress. On Sudan—next door to the DRC—we will never forge...
David Miliband | 501 c269 (Link to this contribution) My reading of the Goldstone report suggests that it raises issues for the state of Israel, rather th...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 501 c269 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that, under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 and the Geneva Conve...
Andrew Mackinlay | 501 c271 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not understand that the theme throughout this debate—the underlying vein...
David Miliband | 501 c270-1 (Link to this contribution) We support director general el-Baradei's proposal, which he has developed with us, the Americans and...
Malcolm Rifkind | 501 c270 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary say explicitly that the United Kingdom would oppose any new proposal for ...
David Miliband | 501 c269 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to refer to this as a crisis, except for the fact that, given it has been go...
Tom Levitt | 501 c269 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments about the urgent need to resolve the politica...
David Miliband | 501 c268 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to go into that, but the truth about the terrorist presence in the Punjab is that at its ...
David Miliband | 501 c272-4 (Link to this contribution) It says everything about the modern Conservative party that its members could see the appointment of...
Michael Fallon | 501 c272 (Link to this contribution) Why did the Prime Minister allow himself to be outwitted by the French into conceding the key intern...
Jeremy Corbyn | 501 c276 (Link to this contribution) I have listened very carefully to the right hon. Gentleman. Does he envisage a point any time soon w...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c274-6 (Link to this contribution) The sentences on foreign and defence policy in the Gracious Speech were relatively without controver...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 501 c276 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not suggesting deploying British troops into Pakistan. The Foreign Secretary spoke about th...
Gordon Prentice | 501 c272 (Link to this contribution) Has my friend had any discussions with the Canadians, who have said that they will withdraw their co...
David Miliband | 501 c271 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. I understand the importance of the burden-sharing case; I devoted...
David Miliband | 501 c272 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have had that conversation. I have had a number of conversations with Canadian colleagues abo...
Ed Davey | 501 c290-1 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman says, this is not an easy strategy—we have never claimed that it is. How...
Bob Spink | 501 c263 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Foreign Secretary is right to feel, as we all do, that we should be concerned abo...
Peter Tapsell | 501 c268 (Link to this contribution) They have not been driven into the Swat valley or Balochistan, which are immense distances away from...
David Miliband | 501 c266-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Afghanistan now has a presidential system, but it also has ...
Paul Flynn | 501 c277 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman see the attraction of naming a date, given that we are looking back on...
Ed Davey | 501 c286-7 (Link to this contribution) There is a risk involved with anything that we do in Afghanistan; there is no risk-free option. The ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 501 c298-301 (Link to this contribution) It is profoundly disturbing that the priorities of the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes) ar...
Paul Flynn | 501 c370 (Link to this contribution) If President Obama announces a policy of retreating from the countryside to the cities, will we supp...
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