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Counter-Terrorism

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

461 c421-37 

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP 07/1389
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Deposited papers
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

David Davis | 461 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for sight of his statement. The Leader of the Opposition and I have been ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c421-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on counter-terrorism. The House will kn...

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John Denham | 461 c426 (Link to this contribution) I believe that this will be the first ever terrorism Bill that has been approached so openly and con...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support for a number of the proposals and for his general a...

Nick Clegg | 461 c427 (Link to this contribution) I warmly thank the Home Secretary for his statement and the cross-party spirit in which it was deliv...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments. I have found him enormously helpful as a construc...

Michael Meacher | 461 c428 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend is now proposing that the decision about detaining a terrorist suspect witho...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) On the first point, people will be able to put forward other proposals—I hope that they will. I do n...

Lord Howard of Lympne | 461 c428 (Link to this contribution) I welcome much of what the Home Secretary has said, obviously including the proposals that we have b...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c428 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure of the premise on which my right hon. Friend asks his question. On prolonging the dete...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c429 (Link to this contribution) The present form of terrorism makes victims of Muslims twice over: first, because like the rest of u...

Shahid Malik | 461 c429 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that there is a disproportionate fear of anti-terror legislation ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor is indeed an old and close friend. We have discussed such issues over many years—in r...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c430 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will undertake to look into that. I very much welcome a phrase that my hon. Friend used: the ...

Andrew Dismore | 461 c430 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Joint Committee on Human Rights, which I chair, will welcome my right hon. Friend...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c430 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made his point, but I hope and expect that that will not happen. It is ...

Iain Duncan Smith | 461 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) Like my colleagues, I welcome the general thrust of the Home Secretary’s proposals and, especially, ...

David Winnick | 461 c431 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that no one is likely to dispute the fact that there is an acute te...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c431 (Link to this contribution) I will turn that round: our approach will be to try to argue that the evidence of the past year has ...

Shailesh Vara | 461 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has said that he is minded to increase the detention period beyond the current li...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c434 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman would no doubt accept that although there have been limited numbers of people pro...

Stewart Hosie | 461 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree that terrorism poses an unprecedented threat and is continually evolving. I welcome the Home...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c435 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised a host of points. It is not normal to publicise the advice of the Law ...

Julie Kirkbride | 461 c435 (Link to this contribution) Has the Home Secretary examined the French system of disruptive arrest without charge, and can he te...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c435 (Link to this contribution) One of the difficulties of comparing the length of time for which people can be detained without cha...

Evan Harris | 461 c435-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome in particular the Home Secretary’s indication that he wishes the Joint Committee on Human ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c436 (Link to this contribution) The Government’s position is quite clear. We think that the Chahal judgment is wrong and we are appe...

Ben Wallace | 461 c436 (Link to this contribution) Some of the technologies that UK counter-terrorist agencies use for intercept and surveillance are s...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c436 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not convinced that this can be done without the disadvantages outweighing the advantages. I...

Patrick Mercer | 461 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) I used powers to stop and question extensively in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s and a...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c432 (Link to this contribution) It is what I am saying, but I do not classify internment in the way that the hon. Gentleman does. I ...

Karen Buck | 461 c432 (Link to this contribution) The overwhelming majority of the substantial and very diverse Muslim communities in my constituency ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c431 (Link to this contribution) I agree with most of what my hon. Friend said, including about the fact that the Attorney-General ta...

David Howarth | 461 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) May I clarify what the Home Secretary is setting out as his personal view? Is he really saying that ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c433 (Link to this contribution) I agree with some of the hon. Gentleman’s comments. I have long said that control orders are not eve...

Paul Flynn | 461 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) The major counter-terrorism decision taken by the House was our decision to go to war in Iraq, with ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) I think that I agree with every point that my hon. Friend raises. I merely point out at this stage t...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c434 (Link to this contribution) I profoundly disagree, not surprisingly, with my hon. Friend’s premise, which is muddled and ahistor...

James Clappison | 461 c434 (Link to this contribution) On another aspect of deportation, is the Home Secretary aware that in a number of terrorist cases re...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 461 c437 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed, the hon. Gentleman may. In anticipation of his remarks, I have decided to do precisely ...

Lord Maples | 461 c433 (Link to this contribution) One of the great gaps in our counter-terrorism strategy is our inability to detain or deport dangero...

Subjects

Data protection Accountability Detainees Finance Electronic surveillance Evidence ICT Police Powers Parliamentary scrutiny Terrorism Surveillance Anti-terrorism control orders

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