Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 20 July 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Charles Clarke.
London Terror Attacks Update
Statement updating information on the terrorist attacks on London on 7 July. (Inc ref to proposed Counter Terrorism Bill).
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- Parliamentary proceeding
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- 436 c1253-72
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- 2005-06
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- Home Office
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Proceeding contributions
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1259-60 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his personal remarks, which I very much appreciate, and for the...
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Mark Oaten | 436 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for notice of his statement and for the approach that he has taken over t...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1253-7 (Link to this contribution) A total of 56 people are now known to have died as a result of the explosions. The identities of all...
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David Davis | 436 c1257-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for bringing the House up to date and for his courtesy in keeping Opposit...
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Speaker | 436 c1253 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will hon. Members leave the Chamber quietly, please?
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1272 (Link to this contribution) First, I am aware of the hon. Gentleman’s very personal understanding of these issues, and I appreci...
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Jeffrey M Donaldson | 436 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Any measure that undermines terrorism is welcome. However, I remind the Home Secretary that in 1998,...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely associate myself with my hon. Friend’s congratulations to the Bedfordshire police and t...
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Margaret Moran | 436 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Bedfordshire police and the emergency services o...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my statement will help to address the last point. On the second point, it is not for me ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1263-4 (Link to this contribution) On my right hon. Friend’s last point, I will certainly consider doing that. I appreciate the implici...
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Alex Salmond | 436 c1264 (Link to this contribution) As much as the Home Secretary has said, I thoroughly support. However, why do we have to depend on T...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1264-5 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with both my hon. Friend’s points. I believe that her explanation is much nearer th...
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Nicholas Winterton | 436 c1265 (Link to this contribution) May I join my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) in congratulatin...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1264 (Link to this contribution) On the JTAC report, I will commit myself simply to the remarks made by the Prime Minister during Pri...
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Louise Ellman | 436 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Home Secretary’s statement and the proposals in it. Does he accept that the ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1263 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s remarks, particularly his references to vigilance and respe...
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John Battle | 436 c1262-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his calm and measured leadership in the past two weeks. Will he joi...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1263 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a long-standing campaigner on the European convention on human rights; I am no...
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William Cash | 436 c1263 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary take account of the need to review the Human Rights Act 1998 in the context ...
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John Denham | 436 c1263 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that some of those who have sought to understand and expl...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments, which I appreciate and accept entirely. I...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. I know the borough commander and his work, and I share her ...
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David Lidington | 436 c1262 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary thank the chief constable of Thames Valley for the professionalism with whic...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1262 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to reinforce the hon. Gentleman’s praise for the chief constable of Thames Valley police....
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John Hemming | 436 c1270 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Home Secretary will join me in welcoming the condemnation by Muslims in Birmingha...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1270 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely correct. I have not recently re-read the Home Affairs Committee report ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1269 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right. The answer is that I have not yet had any discussions of the kind that she d...
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Lord Khan of Tooting | 436 c1269-70 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend recently re-read the excellent Home Affairs Committee report on terrorism a...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1269 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate my hon. Friend’s remarks, which are genuinely well meant. Yes, I will give the assuranc...
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Angela Watkinson | 436 c1269 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary will know that firefighters are in the front line of emergency rescue operations....
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to prejudge the debate that we shall have in the House and the other place on that le...
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Keith Vaz | 436 c1269 (Link to this contribution) May I join others in the universal praise for the Home Secretary and Sir Ian Blair for the exception...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1268 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I am not going to comment on individual cases, beyond the general discussions that I have...
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Julian Lewis | 436 c1268 (Link to this contribution) If an individual were totally to condemn suicide bombings in Britain but to condone or applaud them ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1268 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with the hon. Lady, and I have tried to behave and to use care in the way that she...
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Baroness Teather | 436 c1268 (Link to this contribution) My constituent, Shyanuja Parathasangary, perished in the bombings on 7 July. She was around my age a...
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Andrew Dismore | 436 c1268 (Link to this contribution) Among the fatalities were four people from my constituency. They were four people from four differen...
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Gerald Howarth | 436 c1267 (Link to this contribution) While I welcome the creation of the new offence of indirect incitement to terrorism, I point out to ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1267 (Link to this contribution) I will not comment on individual cases, as I said in my statement, but I confirm that all aspects of...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts it entirely correctly. No particular proposal—for ID cards or anything else—is a...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. It is one of the issues that we considered in the review th...
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Gordon Prentice | 436 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a priority that we train imams here for the British Muslim population of 1.6 million? Unti...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1266-7 (Link to this contribution) Language is a requirement in the new proposals, which we sent out for consultation early this week, ...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1272 (Link to this contribution) First, I think the measures I announced in my statement will help with some of the issues that the h...
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Paul Rowen | 436 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Home Secretary is aware of the activities of several organisations, some of which...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s attention to legislation is always painstaking, and I am sure that that will be...
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John Bercow | 436 c1271 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary’s forthcoming legislation deserves the most painstaking and sympathetic scrutiny....
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1271 (Link to this contribution) We have had two types of discussions. The first is with other countries. About a month ago, we had a...
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Michael Fabricant | 436 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Home Secretary’s statement. May I focus on one specific point? He rightly id...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1271 (Link to this contribution) The national co-ordinators of special branch and ports police are actively reviewing the situation t...
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Chris Mullin | 436 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) In regard to port security, I was visited last Friday by a constituent who is a coach driver who reg...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1270 (Link to this contribution) These are serious issues. CCTV is an extraordinary case. Its utility in this investigation has been ...
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Tobias Ellwood | 436 c1272 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor’s pledge of £10 million to support the survivors and the families of the victims of t...
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Charles Clarke | 436 c1253 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to bring the House up to date with developments since my...
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Chris McCafferty | 436 c1267 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement and the police on their remarkable forensic...
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Ann Keen | 436 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the way in which the process has been conducted, particularly...
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- Bombings Buses Greater London Police Muslims Terrorism Victims Underground railways Islam
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