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Public Disorder (NUS Rally)

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

518 c457-69 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 518 c460 (Link to this contribution) Order. The shadow Home Secretary will be heard.

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c460 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman rightly draws attention to the importance of peaceful protest, as did I. We...

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Michael Fallon | 518 c461 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in paying tribute to the staff at Conservative headquarters, led by Barone...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c461 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Of course it was worrying for the staff at Conservative Campaign Headqu...

Keith Vaz | 518 c461 (Link to this contribution) May I join those on both Front Benches in congratulating the Metropolitan police Commissioner on adm...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on yesterday's public disorder ...

Ed Balls | 518 c458-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice for coming to the House and for givi...

Matt Hancock | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister reassure the House that the investigation into that incitement to violence will co...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) I did not see the remarks to which my hon. Friend refers, and I would be grateful if he would send t...

Richard Graham | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that the remarks made on television yesterday by the University of London un...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c469 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I have already expressed the Government's thanks to police officers, wh...

Michael Ellis | 518 c469 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that the limited number of Metropolitan police officers at the scene in Mill...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the remarks that my hon. Friend attributes to the president of the NUS, but I repe...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) We are committed to supporting the right of peaceful protest. Everyone in this country is entitled t...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c462 (Link to this contribution) I repeat that the review of the deployment of the police is being conducted by the Commissioner of t...

Robert Halfon | 518 c462;518 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that yesterday's mob fires of placards and papers had echoes of 1930s book...

Speaker | 518 c462 (Link to this contribution) I think that Mr Efford will be reassured by that response.

Clive Efford | 518 c462 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as a hirsute Member of Parliament, I am pleased that the policing Minister is not going to ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c462 (Link to this contribution) Neither I nor the Government have anything against bearded people—or even against anti-capitalists, ...

Conor Burns | 518 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday afternoon I agreed to give an interview outside St Stephen's entrance to some students fro...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c461 (Link to this contribution) I have received no such information. I repeat that the vast majority of the 40,000 who were demonstr...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) It was an additional concern yesterday that vehicle access to the Houses of Parliament was denied fo...

Speaker | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) One question, thank you.

Julie Hilling | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday's demonstration was organised jointly by the University and College Union and the National...

David Tredinnick | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend re-evaluate the sense of allowing large demonstrations around Parliament s...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is, quite properly, asking the questions that need to be the subject of the Metropolit...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) Well, anybody in this House is free to make whatever comment they wish about the conduct of this dem...

Tobias Ellwood | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) I must declare an interest: I have led a few demonstrations myself as president of the Loughborough ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) It is my understanding that the police do monitor the various forms of social media, but such questi...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the Metropolitan Police Commissioner will have noted my hon. Friend's views in respect of ...

Charlie Elphicke | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) It would be all too convenient to write this off as just the work of professional agitators, but ser...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) I think we need to draw a distinction between those who were marching peacefully and the small minor...

Philip Hollobone | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) As well as criminal prosecutions, will my right hon. Friend encourage universities, colleges of high...

Rob Wilson | 518 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) Students from Reading university demonstrated in a peaceful and appropriate way and were very upset ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c468 (Link to this contribution) I repeat that there is no excuse for resorting to violence, intimidation or attacks on property. The...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, I spoke to both the NUS president and the Loughborough students who were present, and I a...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) There are statutory obligations on the organisers of marches to notify the police of any relevant in...

Ian Mearns | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) The issues involved in yesterday's events raised by Members here today clearly go beyond what the Me...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c467 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. This is a matter for the Metropolitan police, who, q...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman that the Government wish to protect the right of peaceful pr...

David Lammy | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) At 1.10 pm I was at the front of the march with my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Julie Hil...

Tom Brake | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister reviews the way in which the event was policed, will he confirm that Her Majesty's...

Speaker | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) Please may we have no more statements, just questions? Otherwise a great many Members will be disapp...

Anas Sarwar | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with the Minister's condemnation of yesterday's violent actions, and with his...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) That point will, of course, be covered by the review that the Metropolitan police are undertaking. T...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the president of the NUS has condemned the actions of this minority in the cleares...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman, too, is close to trying to make a political point on the back of th...

David Nuttall | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) In view of the decision made yesterday by a small minority of those involved in the demonstration to...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) We are conducting a review of sentencing, which will be published later this year. Of course that th...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made his point forcefully. It is precisely the sort of point to which I am su...

Mark Durkan | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) Obviously we all offer our sympathy to the police officers who were caught up in coping with circums...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) I said in my statement that the police were informed on Tuesday evening that the NUS had upgraded it...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend on both counts. First, serious violence did take place, and it ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may be interested to know that I spoke to several police constables this mornin...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point about the National Union of Students and the accusations made by the hon. Membe...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) No evidence has been put before me other than the facts, which I have sought to give the House. The ...

Baroness Bray of Coln | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that certain remarks ““twittered”” to the wider world about the fact that th...

Lord McCabe | 518 c463 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's commitment to peaceful protests and demonstrations. Does he share my view t...

Thomas Docherty | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the House will wish to congratulate the Serjeant at Arms and her staff on the speedy decis...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 518 c464 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with my hon. Friend. There is no justification for resorting to violence, intimidation or...

Speaker | 518 c466 (Link to this contribution) Short questions and short answers, please.

Nadine Dorries | 518 c465 (Link to this contribution) In response to the comments of the hon. Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan), let me say that the...

Subjects

Demonstrations City of Westminster Damage Fees and charges Greater London Public order offences Metropolitan Police Trespass Violence Students Vandalism Conservative Department for Business, Innovation and Skills National Union of Students Millbank

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