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Debates on delegated legislation on Thursday, 4 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hanson of Flint. The answering member was Crispin Blunt.


Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

Draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2010. Motion to approve agreed on question.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
506 c1035-51 
Session
2009-10
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1036-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my right hon. Friend will accept that, as I said, we are aware of a range of issues in r...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1036 (Link to this contribution) It certainly does. However, Ministers came to the Dispatch Box and said very similar things to the H...
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Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I respect my hon. Friend, who always takes a keen interest in these matters. He will know that there...
Andrew Mackinlay | 506 c1037 (Link to this contribution) The Minister prayed in aid the fact—I am sure that he is correct—that the United States of America a...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for setting out those criteria. Have the Government received e...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1035-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I was going to come on to this point later in my speech, but ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) The order is being debated and can be voted on. I have already told the House about the five suicide...
Dari Taylor | 506 c1039 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my right hon. Friend realises that Members have concerns about this order. If there is n...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1039 (Link to this contribution) One of the great joys of being a Minister is that I do not have to decide whether offences have been...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made his point in his usual forceful manner. I am sure that my right hon. Friend ...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1038 (Link to this contribution) It is essential that the Government keep the list of proscribed organisations under review. The Mini...
Andrew Mackinlay | 506 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I do not know why this Prime Minister, like the previous one, and Ministers are so cussed about this...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) The LTTE has been a proscribed organisation since the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force because, si...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1039 (Link to this contribution) In that case, is it the Minister's view that offences did not occur during that demonstration and th...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend knows the procedure, but it is worth outlining it to the House as a...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1038 (Link to this contribution) While we are on the subject of the LTTE, I notice that the policy background notes say:""It is also ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman a firm assurance that the decision on Islam4UK was coincidental, not s...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification, but perhaps when he replies the Minister will describe as far ...
Dari Taylor | 506 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I have absolutely no problem in saying in this House that I did support 90 days, and were there reas...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Before turning to the order, I want to reflect on the intervention from the hon. Member for Stockton...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I may not be alone in detecting a certain philosophical inc...
Speaker | 506 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before we go any further, I should say that I have allowed the hon. Lady to respond, but now ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1040 (Link to this contribution) The 2008 Act is clear. It says that individuals should not undertake activity that supports acts of ...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1040 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been very generous in giving way, but what he has just said simply is not the case ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) With due respect, it is not for me to micromanage those sorts of issues. Ultimately, it is for the H...
Tom Brake | 506 c1040 (Link to this contribution) What action would the Minister be willing to undertake if organisations that are nothing to do with ...
William Cash | 506 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) has referred to cross-border activity, and I w...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1045-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, will be relatively brief, but I want to note my concerns to the House. On these counter-ter...
Tom Brake | 506 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not know enough about that particular organisation to say whether we might in futur...
William Cash | 506 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman consider as legitimate the sort of activities that we saw on a Channel 4 pr...
Tom Brake | 506 c1044 (Link to this contribution) We all heard the Minister's opening remarks and his sobering assessment of the terrorism threat that...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman will restrain himself, I am coming to the point that he made earlier. We...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that observation, but the order does refer to a specific thr...
Andrew Mackinlay | 506 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman referred to paragraph 2.2 in the explanatory memorandum with r...
William Cash | 506 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has pointed that out. What I am stating here is more in the ...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that clarification and I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Is he say...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me commence by answering the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), who asked about recent television...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1049-51 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will have to accept that I cannot go into detail about the activities we wish t...
Speaker | 506 c1048 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the right hon. Member intervenes, may I remind the House that we are looking closely a...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2010, ...
Keith Vaz | 506 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I will not widen the debate because you have made your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker. A number of peo...
Subjects
Evidence Proscribed organisations Terrorism Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam al Shabaab
Legislation
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2010
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