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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 24 March 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Smith of Malvern.

International Terrorism

Statement on the United Kingdom's strategy for countering international terrorism (Cm 7547).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
490 c169-83 
Session
2008-09
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Andrew Dismore | 490 c182 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to operating within the framework of human rights, w...
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Tobias Ellwood | 490 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) It is almost six years to the day since the invasion of Iraq. I am sorry that the Home Secretary doe...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is looking in detail at the nature of the developing threat that w...
Fiona Mactaggart | 490 c181 (Link to this contribution) I should like to add my thanks to another group of people who have helped to keep us safe—the modera...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c181 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are many brave and important voices in the Muslim communit...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) Guidance is given. There is both a legal basis for the power, and guidance is given to police office...
Kerry McCarthy | 490 c182 (Link to this contribution) On Saturday, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry), I took part in a disc...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c182 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, which is precisely why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister last wee...
Evan Harris | 490 c178 (Link to this contribution) In the Home Secretary's Prevent strategy, on page 84 of the document, she rightly says:""Building co...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c178 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is exactly right; that is the reason why all four P's that I have outlined toda...
Louise Ellman | 490 c178 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary's statement, but can she assure me that it will prevent a repetition of...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c178 (Link to this contribution) I have had experience in my previous jobs of the admissions criteria for schools, and I absolutely d...
Bernard Jenkin | 490 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary's statement, but while her responsibilities are inevitably focused prim...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c178 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, we condemn not only the comments, but the statements supported by Daud Abdullah. That is ...
Derek Twigg | 490 c179 (Link to this contribution) I have not been approached by my constituents saying that too many powers have been given to the pol...
Gavin Strang | 490 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) Many of us remember the Omagh bombing and some of us in this place remember Airey Neave. Surely the ...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c179 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why the vast majority of Muslims in this country condemn...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c180 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give the hon. Gentleman that commitment. That was why we changed the law to ensure that t...
Shailesh Vara | 490 c180 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary will be aware that, every so often, protests and marches are held at which people...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c180 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. We have identified that failed states and countries where there is un...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c181 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that sometimes, as police officers have outlined, the ability to threaten the use of s...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 490 c181 (Link to this contribution) Why does section 9 of the document propagate the fiction that the Government are tackling internet-b...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that the work that we are taking forward on the common travel area is the subje...
Baroness Hoey | 490 c180 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary give the House an assurance that all measures to combat international terror...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) I really do not think that that money has gone astray. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State f...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 490 c179 (Link to this contribution) It has been confirmed in the past week that the Department for Communities and Local Government is o...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c175 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to be impassioned about the safety of people both in this country and ...
Ian McCartney | 490 c175 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. It is important that these reviews are ongoing, as terro...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c174 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for paying tribute to those involved in countering terrorism and keeping ...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c173 (Link to this contribution) I think my right hon. Friend is right to draw attention, as I did, to the need to learn from events ...
Chris Huhne | 490 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for giving me advance sight of the statement, although I should have like...
Keith Vaz | 490 c173 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary's statement and her commitment to continue to engage with communities. ...
Lord Grayling | 490 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Home Secretary for providing an advance copy of her statement? Once again, however, ...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c177 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that I do not recognise the right hon. Gentleman's comment that there has been a 25 pe...
David Davis | 490 c177 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the Home Secretary that a tragic reminder of the less than competent implementation of ...
Patrick Mercer | 490 c176 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary will be aware that one of the so-called preachers of hate is currently in a high-...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c176 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice was present in the Chamber until recently. I...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 490 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) As you may know, Mr. Speaker, I have an interest in these matters, as declared in the register. Firs...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c177 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for those words, and also for his extremely important work in the Home ...
Julian Lewis | 490 c175 (Link to this contribution) Is there any particular reason why the Pursue strand in the document is being moved up ahead of the ...
Lord Blunkett | 490 c176 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend and all those who have worked with her on updating the Contest strategy...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) I have today published the revised version of the Government's strategy for countering international...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c179 (Link to this contribution) Of course, military effort is part of the approach that we need to take to making the world safer an...
Adam Ingram | 490 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this new strategy and I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend's staff and others across Whit...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that the order has always been Pursue and then Prevent. Of course the short-term task is to ...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) In relation to the hon. Gentleman's first point, the Contest strategy has been available to hon. Mem...
Baroness Smith of Malvern | 490 c176 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes those comments from a position of considerable experience in terms of his...
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Crime prevention Finance Intelligence services Police Terrorism al Qaeda Radicalism
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