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Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was David Miliband.

Foreign Affairs and Defence

Queens speech debate (second day) on foreign affairs and defence.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
510 c174-276 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Defence
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Bob Stewart | 510 c215-7 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time I have had the privilege of speaking to the House. I am a bit nervous, becaus...
James Morris | 510 c233-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (Sandra Osborne) and other r...
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Thomas Docherty | 510 c249-52 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this debate about the future of our ...
Gordon Birtwistle | 510 c248-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech so early in the new Parliament. I pay tri...
Lord Walney | 510 c254-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this debate on defence, an issue of su...
Julian Huppert | 510 c256-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for giving me this chance to speak so early in this Parliament, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is g...
Yasmin Qureshi | 510 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to make my maiden speech. Dr Brian Iddon came to Parliament in 1...
Jonathan Reynolds | 510 c240-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by paying tribute to the fine speech of the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy). W...
Jeremy Lefroy | 510 c237-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am also honoured to follow the hon. Member ...
Speaker | 510 c197 (Link to this contribution) Order. Today's debate is very heavily subscribed, and I have therefore imposed, with immediate effec...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c176 (Link to this contribution) I will take the hon. Lady's intervention before developing the point on that visit.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c176 (Link to this contribution) We have not yet reached the desired point, but we are coming to it. As I speak, the Minister of Sta...
Denis MacShane | 510 c177 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary, who is a good Rotherham man. On the issue of the EU-Latin Am...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c177 (Link to this contribution) Because the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) is so bursting to intervene in the debate,...
Sandra Osborne | 510 c176 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman. If he takes the view that all Government Departments should have a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to open this year's foreign affairs and defence debate on the Gracious Speech, the...
Tobias Ellwood | 510 c176 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on becoming Foreign Secretary—something that Conservative Me...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c176 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The brief answer to his question is "Yes, we will honour that commi...
Paul Flynn | 510 c175 (Link to this contribution) Why does the right hon. Gentleman disagree with the Defence Secretary, who said that it was his prio...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c175 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a particular view on Afghanistan, which he often expresses and which we must ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) I love listening to the right hon. Gentleman, as he knows, but he is so entertaining that I think we...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly right, and it is the counter argument to the concerns about the situation expressed ...
Madeleine Moon | 510 c180 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that making any consistent progress in Afghanistan will also req...
David Cairns | 510 c179 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that while it is very difficult to articulate what victory in this ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c180-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be interested to know—although he may know this already—that one of the prop...
Jeremy Corbyn | 510 c180 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on his appointment to the post. Does he recognise that as Iran ...
Chris Bryant | 510 c182 (Link to this contribution) You should just say, "I agree with David."
Lord Blunkett | 510 c182 (Link to this contribution) I, too, offer my congratulations to a fellow south Yorkshireman. In the spirit of what he is describ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c182 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his good wishes. As he knows, the Government are committed to m...
Speaker | 510 c177 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Foreign Secretary returns to the Dispatch Box, I say that we must have a degree of...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) In response to the right hon. Gentleman—I accept his praise as being a good Rotherham man and thank ...
David Winnick | 510 c178 (Link to this contribution) We all pay tribute to British troops in Afghanistan, and rightly so. There is no division of opinion...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c178 (Link to this contribution) I think that we also all agree that this is not a problem to which there is just a military solution...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c179 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. Where progress is being made in Afghanistan, it is being made because the...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c179 (Link to this contribution) During his early consultations with Paris and Berlin in particular, did the Foreign Secretary receiv...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c179 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady knows, those countries are committed to support the NATO strategy. We have, of cour...
David Miliband | 510 c194 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been trying to intervene and I am happy to give way to him.
Julian Brazier | 510 c194 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way. [Hon. Members: "Shadow Foreign Secretary...
David Miliband | 510 c193 (Link to this contribution) We did that earlier this year. We anticipated my hon. Friend's desire for us to take action and we w...
Michael Connarty | 510 c193 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is rattling ahead. Now he is in opposition, he should take more time and give o...
David Miliband | 510 c192 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The investigation and any prosecution of Ahmed Wali Karzai,...
David Miliband | 510 c194 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way now, while I am warming to the theme. The Foreign Secretary said blithely that h...
David Miliband | 510 c194 (Link to this contribution) That is an absolutely shocking allegation. It is not true, and I want to tell the hon. Gentleman why...
Paul Flynn | 510 c192 (Link to this contribution) On corruption in Afghanistan, is not the fact that the election-rigging Karzai has failed to arrest ...
David Miliband | 510 c195 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, founded on the actual experience of going to Afghanistan an...
Madeleine Moon | 510 c195 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend interested to know that when the Defence Committee visited Afghanistan last ...
David Miliband | 510 c195-7 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support Turkey's entry to the EU and it was disappointing that the Foreign Secretary did ...
Denis MacShane | 510 c195 (Link to this contribution) One of the ambitions that we all have is that Turkey should join the European Union if it fulfils th...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 510 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that we rather enjoyed the leadership speech by the former Foreign Secretary. The Foreign S...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 510 c199 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend. Over the years he and I, along with many others in both ...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 510 c198 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend share my pleasure that the Prime Minister himself, before he b...
David Miliband | 510 c195 (Link to this contribution) How can the hon. Gentleman talk about the work of joining up DFID and the MOD when, after two weeks,...
Tobias Ellwood | 510 c194 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Foreign Secretary. To go back to the point about DFID, I should say that...
Ann Clwyd | 510 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) Some of them believe that they are still open to persecution. Obviously, there is an ongoing dialogu...
Mike Hancock | 510 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the right hon. Lady's comments on the Kurds. If everything is so good now in Kurd...
Ann Clwyd | 510 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) I quite agree with my right hon. Friend. Obviously, I have been involved with the Kurds for longer t...
Denis MacShane | 510 c201 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Kurds, who in other parts of that region have suffered terr...
Ann Clwyd | 510 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the new Foreign Secretary. I agreed with much of what he said in opposition, and I ha...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 510 c200 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. Would a reasonable alternative be the Astute cla...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 510 c199 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 510 c199 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Defence Secretary for that intervention, and for his undertaking. I also wish ...
Liam Fox | 510 c199 (Link to this contribution) For the sake of clarification, my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Arbuthno...
Mike Gapes | 510 c207 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. In a number of countries in Europe, earlier in the year—until the then For...
Sandra Osborne | 510 c207 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend also highlight the impact that that has had on terms and conditions of staff in ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 510 c207 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that a lot of the legislation to do with the overseas territori...
Jeremy Corbyn | 510 c204 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman share my concern at the large number of embassies and miss...
Malcolm Rifkind | 510 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Member for South Shields (David Miliband) to the club of former Foreign Sec...
Mike Gapes | 510 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind), a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c184 (Link to this contribution) Consideration of this will not be long delayed, I can assure the hon. Gentleman. Given that the prev...
Mike Gapes | 510 c184 (Link to this contribution) "In due course" is not the same as at the earliest opportunity. Will he explain the difference?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point. I can assure him that I share his frustrat...
Michael Connarty | 510 c184 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his elevation. Everyone will look at his words in d...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) I used to say that I agree with him, but now he will have to say that he agrees with me; the situati...
Speaker | 510 c183 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have got the point. The interventions are still too long.
Mike Gapes | 510 c183 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on his elevation. During the general election campaign a full-p...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c183 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly legitimate question. I will go on to say in my speech how we will proceed on thi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) It is very important to increase the international efforts to deal with that. There are a number of ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c184 (Link to this contribution) I am merely saying that there are a range of issues for the Government to address. I explained earli...
Malcolm Rifkind | 510 c184 (Link to this contribution) Although most of the comment so far has concerned Tzipi Livni and visitors from Israel, the Foreign ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c185 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is completely right. That was why I referred a moment ago to the ba...
David Burrowes | 510 c185 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend. On this day, when direct talks have resumed between the Greek C...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c185 (Link to this contribution) That is a manifesto commitment I can easily reiterate, and my hon. Friend has just done it for me.
David Tredinnick | 510 c185 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment. Will he say a word on his approach to piracy...
William Cash | 510 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way, and I would not want to disappoint ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) They are different from each other, of course. I am glad to say that when the right hon. Member for ...
Tony Baldry | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) I want to give my right hon. Friend the opportunity to amplify what he just said about India and Chi...
William Cash | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) As a major concession, I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) and t...
Tony Baldry | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to try to get to the end of my speech at some point.
Robert Flello | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State and I add my congratulations to him. He mentioned India, and...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) The last thing a new British Foreign Secretary should do is lecture other people about Kashmir. The ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c186 (Link to this contribution) I know that time is passing because I am being asked so many questions, so I shall give way just one...
David Miliband | 510 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a former military officer and knows well the extensive work done over the past...
Tobias Ellwood | 510 c191 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Foreign Secretary raises a number of important questions, to which I am sure we will find...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I cannot take any more interventions, but, on my hon. Friend's point, in this context, we are consid...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c189 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must conclude. The papal visit will be an event of great significance and meaning...
David Miliband | 510 c189-91 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by warmly congratulating the Foreign Secretary on his new responsibilities. He establis...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be delighted to know that I am coming to Europe. I am trying to get to that part...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c188 (Link to this contribution) Or perhaps it was the responsibility of some of those who have been the Minister for Europe. The rig...
John Stanley | 510 c223-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 510 c226 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate most warmly the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) on a very good mai...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 510 c222 (Link to this contribution) That is excellent; I am liking the Secretary of State's interventions more and more. The Defence Co...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 510 c219-21 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary on making such an excellent opening speech...
Liam Fox | 510 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) I can tell my right hon. Friend that I have already asked the civil service at the MOD to draw up pl...
Sandra Osborne | 510 c219 (Link to this contribution) I too have visited that Israeli town, and I agree that its community are under great pressure, but d...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 510 c219 (Link to this contribution) Of course there is a debate about that. It saddens me that innocent people on both sides die in the ...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 510 c217-9 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart), and it i...
Julian Lewis | 510 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) I much admire the hon. Gentleman, but I am wearing today the crest of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal...
Jeremy Corbyn | 510 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that we are having this debate so early in the discussion of the Queen's Speech. F...
Denis MacShane | 510 c213 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that there is also an Arab country blockading Gaza—namely, Egypt? Do...
Jeremy Corbyn | 510 c213-5 (Link to this contribution) Egypt does indeed maintain a blockade of Gaza, but it is not the country that is threatening or tryi...
Julian Lewis | 510 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes), who has shown great consis...
Julian Lewis | 510 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) I am on the Back Benches; I am not bound by this stuff. Cruise missiles are more expensive and less ...
Ian Davidson | 510 c211 (Link to this contribution) The former shadow Minister is speaking in a fascinating way about Afghanistan. However, now that he ...
Speaker | 510 c209 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members must not overrun.
Paul Flynn | 510 c226 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's party has an honourable record in calling for an inquiry into Iraq. Does he thi...
Mike Hancock | 510 c228-30 (Link to this contribution) May I say what a pleasure it is to see you, Hugh Bayley, sitting in the Chair as Deputy Speaker? My ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 510 c226-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the hon. Gentleman. He and I believe strongly that the incursion is wrong an...
Angela C Smith | 510 c234-7 (Link to this contribution) I would like to start, as many other Members have, by paying tribute to those who have made their ma...
Sandra Osborne | 510 c231-3 (Link to this contribution) May I add my congratulations to the two colleagues who have given their maiden speeches today? Both ...
Julian Brazier | 510 c242-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan Reynolds), who m...
Speaker | 510 c237 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must now move on to Mr Jeremy Lefroy.
Denis MacShane | 510 c246-8 (Link to this contribution) I see that the hon. Gentleman knows the words as well as I do. It is time to assert the principle t...
David Cairns | 510 c262-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a tremendous honour to speak in a debate that has featured so many genuinely outstanding maide...
Alison Seabeck | 510 c258-61 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some wonderful maiden speeches today. My new colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for ...
William Cash | 510 c252-4 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to speak in this debate, which has had so many notable contributions by n...
Patrick Mercer | 510 c266-8 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to follow the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn). He and I have clashed on...
Bob Ainsworth | 510 c269 (Link to this contribution) First, I pay tribute to our armed forces, particularly those stationed in many parts of the world as...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 510 c269 (Link to this contribution) There is not only the Green Paper exercise, in which the former Secretary of State was kind enough t...
Bob Ainsworth | 510 c269-71 (Link to this contribution) I am inviting my successor to be as open and inclusive as possible and to try to capture a broad spe...
Liam Fox | 510 c272-3 (Link to this contribution) It is with sadness that I must begin with the death of a soldier from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, ...
Liam Fox | 510 c273-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Lady. In any case, she made an incredibly informed speech that I thoroughly ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c177 (Link to this contribution) My colleagues in the Foreign Office would be delighted if all Departments joined in paying internati...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c180 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Lady is absolutely right, and she beautifully anticipates the next paragraph in my spe...
Mike Gapes | 510 c207-9 (Link to this contribution) This is not for this debate, but we need to consider mechanisms under which the overseas territories...
Mike Hancock | 510 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) It is, and the European Parliament would grasp the opportunity willingly, but we have to have a prop...
Denis MacShane | 510 c245-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr Brazier), who over many years has illu...
Robert Smith | 510 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the commitment to a long-term political solution and the recognition that there has to be ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 510 c204-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I recognise, of course, that at this moment we can keep only a modest high commission or embass...
Richard Burden | 510 c183 (Link to this contribution) I, too, give my congratulations to the right hon. Gentleman. As he has said, the words that he has c...
Paul Flynn | 510 c264-6 (Link to this contribution) A special intense silence falls on this place when the names of the fallen are read out. We experien...
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Armed forces Defence Armed conflict Deployment Casualties China Africa Human rights EU enlargement Iraq EU action Foreign policy Nuclear weapons Politics and government Pakistan Proliferation Travel restrictions UK membership of EU Afghanistan Israel Sri Lanka Palestine Iran Middle East Peace negotiations Cuba Gaza
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