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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 26 January 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness May of Maidenhead.

Counter-terrorism Review

Statement on the counter-terrorism review.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
522 c306-26 
Session
2010-12
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Counter-terrorism Review
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 522 c308 (Link to this contribution) Order. Whatever Members think, on either side of the argument, the statement by the Home Secretary o...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c306-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the outcome of the review of count...
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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c318 (Link to this contribution) I must confess to my hon. Friend that I wondered where his question was leading, but I should add th...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 522 c318 (Link to this contribution) While, in cosy comfort and at times with chuckles, we in the House deal with the theory of terrorism...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c317 (Link to this contribution) It has been clear from the interventions in response to my statement that there are differing views ...
William Cash | 522 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) There is no freedom without security, so would the Home Secretary consider changing the proposed Bil...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c317 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised an important issue. This is just one part of our ongoing work to ensure th...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 522 c317 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and I welcome the long overdue rebalancing between secu...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c317 (Link to this contribution) We could never forget the work of the Select Committee under the right hon. Gentleman's chairmanship...
Keith Vaz | 522 c316 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the reduction in the detention period and the changes to control orders, although we w...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c316 (Link to this contribution) We are, of course, very conscious of the severity of the threat that this country faces. That is why...
Patrick Mercer | 522 c316 (Link to this contribution) I certainly welcome the Home Secretary's statement about the increase in surveillance, but she will ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that my right hon. Friend is aware that there are certain aspects of this on which he and I ...
Jack Straw | 522 c316 (Link to this contribution) Will the £20 million of new money, to which the Home Secretary refers, come from within her existing...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c316 (Link to this contribution) I have named no figure on the funding to be made available. I was very clear in my response to the s...
Lord Blunkett | 522 c315 (Link to this contribution) May I sympathise with the Home Secretary in having to balance the protection of the British people w...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his contribution. I am particularly grateful to him for...
David Davis | 522 c315 (Link to this contribution) I welcome unreservedly the Home Secretary's comments on the reduction of detention without charge, t...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c315 (Link to this contribution) I note the points that the right hon. Gentleman has made. On the issue of the admissibility of evide...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c312-4 (Link to this contribution) May I start by welcoming the more measured approach that the shadow Home Secretary took in the early...
Yvette Cooper | 522 c309-12 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of the review. The horrific attac...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 522 c314 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Home Secretary that it was a Labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, who put through em...
Speaker | 522 c314 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is an extremely important matter and a great many right hon. and hon. Members understand...
Speaker | 522 c318 (Link to this contribution) Order. I very much want to hear what the hon. Gentleman has to say, but I think that one question is...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c318 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the issue of the latest attempted terrorist attack in Northern ...
James Clappison | 522 c318 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Home Affairs Committee who has been involved in the saga of scrutinising the prop...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an extremely valid point. The Government will indeed be rigorous in their ef...
Hazel Blears | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister responsible, with the then Home Secretary, for taking the control orders legislation...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) I have announced those measures precisely because we recognise the need to take action against a sma...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are significant differences between the past and present situations. The curfews under th...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) I reject the right hon. Gentleman's description of the situation and of the balance between national...
Pat McFadden | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) The debate at the heart of government on these issues has been based on the wrong premise that it is...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Gentleman does not need to read his question if he is a barrister.
Guy Opperman | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House that I had a former profession as a barrister for the Attorney-General. The Home ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c322 (Link to this contribution) No, we do not. We are repealing control orders and introducing a new set of measures that have more ...
Caroline Lucas | 522 c322 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the direction taken by the Home Secretary. It is an indictment of the previous Government ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) I think that people will look at what the Government have done today and see a responsible Governmen...
Richard Fuller | 522 c323 (Link to this contribution) There is much to welcome in my right hon. Friend's statement, but thousands of people around the wor...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c322 (Link to this contribution) The Government have always had a commitment, including in the coalition agreement, to examine the po...
Dominic Raab | 522 c322 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Home Secretary on the important steps that she has taken towards reversing the draconi...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c322 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's description of the PSNI's use of section 44 is accurate, because the PSNI...
Paul Goggins | 522 c321-2 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question asked by the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley), may I press the Hom...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c321 (Link to this contribution) On the indefinite detention of people, I can confirm to my hon. Friend that we will be introducing a...
Tom Brake | 522 c321 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary's statement will be welcomed by all those who value fundamental British rights an...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c321 (Link to this contribution) First, I recognise that individual Ministers have to take difficult decisions on the use of these po...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) There is a significant difference between telling people that they cannot do something and watching ...
George Howarth | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) In the context of civil liberties, which does the Home Secretary consider to be more draconian, a co...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely valid point. I believe that local authorities' misuse of RIPA powers has done m...
Baroness Fullbrook | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary's announcement about the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. N...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) The whole point of the discussions that we have with countries in order to be able to deport people ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) Is the Home Secretary entirely comfortable with the notion that individuals are held in British pris...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the work that he did in the European Parliament. I know that he ...
Jonathan Evans | 522 c320 (Link to this contribution) I can inform the House—at the risk of provoking my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash)—that I...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is obviously particularly concerned about the civil liberties aspects of the proposal...
Julian Huppert | 522 c319 (Link to this contribution) There is much to welcome in the statement, which goes a long way towards reversing the worst infring...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c325 (Link to this contribution) As I have made clear, there is a two-year limit on the new measures. It will be possible, if further...
Christopher Pincher | 522 c325 (Link to this contribution) Although I appreciate that the Home Secretary might be a little constrained in what she can say, wil...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly happy to inform the House that I have had a positive reaction to the statement, in th...
Chris Bryant | 522 c326 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has said that she will publish two separate pieces of draft primary legislation. ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c326 (Link to this contribution) We have proposed that the emergency legislation on 28 days' pre-charge detention should be subject t...
Pete Wishart | 522 c326 (Link to this contribution) It was all going so well. There we were, happily dismantling Labour's anti-civil libertarian agenda,...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c326 (Link to this contribution) The commitment was always to review control orders. We were always absolutely clear that national se...
Thomas Docherty | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) Just like the ““Grand Old Duchess of York””, the right hon. Lady marched the Liberal Democrats up a ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not recall the previous Government ever doing something like that—[Hon. Members: ““Lord Car...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) The truth is that the vast majority of British people will be very concerned that the control orders...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) No, I have just explained the differences between the curfew and the overnight residence requirement...
Nadhim Zahawi | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Home Secretary on the decision to allow Lord Macdonald to oversee and approve...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c325 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. I think that the vast majority of the public will see that the Government ha...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 522 c324 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly does not appreciate the purpose of what is being done and the Government'...
Michael Ellis | 522 c325 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Home Secretary on establishing a wholly new and more balanced counter-terrori...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 522 c325 (Link to this contribution) What will happen if, after two years of the Home Secretary's new form of control order, an individua...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 522 c321 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that those of us who signed section 44 orders and control orders did ...
David Winnick | 522 c317 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the reduction of the period of detention from 28 to 14 days—although I wish it were withou...
Subjects
Access Disclosure of information Counter-terrorism Curfews Detainees Deportation Evidence Human rights Internet Terrorism Stop and search Surveillance Telecommunications Security Anti-terrorism control orders Terrorism prevention and investigation measures Counter-terrorism and Security Powers Review
Legislation
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
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