EDM 785 PRIVATE MILITARY & SECURITY

Early Day Motion PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES EDM 785

24.01.2008

Anderson, David

That this House is concerned by the exponential growth of private military and security companies (PMSCs) since the invasion of Iraq; is disturbed by the substantial rise of reported incidents of civilian killings and human rights abuses by PMSC guards in Iraq who remain unregulated and unaccountable; further notes that problems posed by proliferation of PMSCs were highlighted in a Green Paper in February 2002 that originated in a request from the Foreign Affairs Committee but that, six years later, there is still no United Kingdom legislation regulating PMSCs; believes that self-regulation by the industry is not appropriate in this instance; and urges the Government to bring forward legislative proposals for the control of the PMSC sector as an urgent priority.

Conservative Party Bottomley, Peter Open: 1 Closed: 0 Labour Party Anderson, David Caton, Martin Corbyn, Jeremy Cryer, Ann Drew, David Jones, Lynne Meale, Alan Open: 7 Closed: 0 Liberal Democrats Hancock, Mike

Regulate Mercenaries 24 Jan 2008
Dave Anderson MP has again urged controls on private military and security companies.
This time he has tabled a Commons motion expressing his concern at the unregulated activities of some of these companies in Iraq and calling for regulation.

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No interferring John Smith in the St Athan planning application

By John Smith : 2 Commons debates
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Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Defence Training Programme (16 Jan 2008)
 http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-01-16a.917.6&s=speaker%3A10550#g9
17.7
 John Smith: What progress is being made on the Defence Training
 Programme at RAF St. Athan; and if he will make a statement.

Mark Pritchard (Wrekin, The, Conservative) Link to this | Hansard source

Is the Minister aware that, according to a recent survey by the Public and Commercial Services union, 72 per cent. of the defence personnel who are expected to move to Wales from RAF Cosford in my constituency are either unwilling or unable to do so? Is it not about time we were given some transparency in the planning problems mentioned by the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan (John Smith)?

Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Defence Training Programme (16 Jan  2008)
 http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-01-16a.917.6&s=speaker%3A10550#g9
17.9
 John Smith: I thank my hon. Friend for that reply and I thank him and the Secretary of State for their work in attracting this multi-billion
 pound investment to Wales. If all of Wales is to benefit from it, we must get the
planning right. Will my hon. Friend agree to meet me to
 discuss the local authority's planning strategy to ensure that it appreciates the
sheer scale and strategic importance of this...