Parliamentary search - Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

457 c434-60

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2007
Thursday, 1 February 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Tony McNulty | 457 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is that I do not know specifically. If, during the course of our debate, I receive ...

William Cash | 457 c436 (Link to this contribution) Oh, yes, it does.

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Tony McNulty | 457 c435 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman’s last point concurs entirely with what the Lord Chancellor sa...

Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c436 (Link to this contribution) Do any of those charges relate to the three people whose control orders have been in place since Mar...

Tony McNulty | 457 c436 (Link to this contribution) Not the hon. Gentleman’s last point. I had the good fortune of making a subsequent speech at RUSI du...

John Denham | 457 c434 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord Carlile recently suggested, or appeared to suggest, that some cases that are subject ...

Tony McNulty | 457 c435 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. I will be coming on to precisely that point, dea...

Tony McNulty | 457 c441 (Link to this contribution) The question of anonymity remains the preserve of the police. If the police say clearly that, for op...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c441 (Link to this contribution) I accept the Minister’s intervention, but comments from the Home Office such as the one that I have ...

Tony McNulty | 457 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) The matter was brought to my attention and I went on ““Newsnight”” that night and explained that ver...

Jim Cousins | 457 c437 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has just used the term ““reasonably suspected””. He will be aware that the test of re...

William Cash | 457 c438 (Link to this contribution) In view of there being very few Members here, I hope that the Minister will not mind if I refer to c...

Tony McNulty | 457 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that the safeguards are clear. The threshold test involved in establishing reasonable suspic...

Tony McNulty | 457 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, that is not the case. It would not be right to sugg...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for reintroducing this piece of legislation. The most focusing thing t...

Tony McNulty | 457 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is broadly right, in the sense that much of what my right hon. Friend describes do...

Nick Clegg | 457 c445-7 (Link to this contribution) On the day that the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 came into force, 11 March 2005, the Prime Minis...

Mark Oaten | 457 c447 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that the reason for the delay in dealing with the question of i...

Jeremy Browne | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) Based on the comments that the hon. Gentleman just made, will he indicate which way his party intend...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. I have no doubt that the Minister will pick up...

William Cash | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) There was a full-ranging debate on Monday on the Human Rights Act. The question of the publication o...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the Minister does not really believe what he is saying. With the greatest respect, he di...

Fiona Mactaggart | 457 c443-5 (Link to this contribution) I was grateful to the Minister for his response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, ...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) Well, that is fine. The comments that Lord Carlile makes in his annual report are quite clear. Ther...

William Cash | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not.

Patrick Mercer | 457 c442 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will: we are going to support the motion, with great reluctance, and, if the hon. Gentleman w...

Nick Clegg | 457 c447 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting and intriguing observation. I was not aware that that might be t...

Nick Clegg | 457 c448 (Link to this contribution) If control orders were no longer a tool that could be used on the 18 individuals in question, I hope...

William Cash | 457 c449-51 (Link to this contribution) My first point is that I am extremely glad that Lord Carlile has produced yet another report. We are...

Mark Oaten | 457 c448 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

William Cash | 457 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) On the question of human rights, as the hon. Gentleman will remember, there was an understanding bet...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 457 c448 (Link to this contribution) I listened to the hon. Gentleman’s concerns, many of which are valid, and to the concerns of the res...

Nick Clegg | 457 c448 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is clarifying his position, and obviously he is free to do so, but I do not agree...

Tony McNulty | 457 c451 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

William Cash | 457 c451 (Link to this contribution) As ever, I listen carefully to the hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished lawyer. Often, we nearly a...

Tony McNulty | 457 c454 (Link to this contribution) I value the work of the Joint Committee, as I have said before. Its reports are extremely useful. L...

Evan Harris | 457 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s intervention gave him a good opportunity to set out his very clear view. The c...

William Cash | 457 c453 (Link to this contribution) I would be the first to defend the right of judges to make their decisions according to the rule of ...

Evan Harris | 457 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes. There are a number of wrong ways of going about this, and we have heard several of them. I beli...

David Winnick | 457 c452 (Link to this contribution) However unsatisfactory the control orders might be—obviously, there will be a Division—does the hon....

Evan Harris | 457 c452 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a couple of points about the report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the ren...

William Cash | 457 c451 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Minister is shaking is head, because I am not trying to make a cheap point, and w...

Patrick Mercer | 457 c455 (Link to this contribution) Anybody who has dealt with intercept evidence in practice, as I have, knows that it is no magic wand...

Tony McNulty | 457 c455 (Link to this contribution) Simply put—the matter is incredibly complex, as I know the hon. Gentleman will understand—the reason...

William Cash | 457 c455 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Tony McNulty | 457 c455 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. The issue of control orders will not go away. Lord Carlile has expressed the hop...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 457 c455 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has said that aspects of the Prevention of Terrorism Act worry him, and that he has h...

Tony McNulty | 457 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) On my hon. Friend’s initial point, which was also raised by the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abi...

Nick Clegg | 457 c454 (Link to this contribution) I clearly stipulated the four areas in which we wanted revisions to the control order regime, a proc...

Tony McNulty | 457 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asked a clear question: what would happen if the control orders governing those 18 we...

Tony McNulty | 457 c454 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress before I give way. As the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg)...

Tony McNulty | 457 c456 (Link to this contribution) Now that we have covered all those points, I shall make a few more comments; I promise to give way t...

Tony McNulty | 457 c457 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman because I have to cough.

William Cash | 457 c457 (Link to this contribution) I hope my comments will not make the Minister’s cough worse. I hope he will accept that I am not aga...

Tony McNulty | 457 c457 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the first duty. I will not go over the arguments with which we began the debate. ...

Tony McNulty | 457 c456 (Link to this contribution) I shall come back to Newark first. If I have time, I will indulge the hon. Member for Stone.

Patrick Mercer | 457 c456 (Link to this contribution) The point about intercept is similar to the excellent point from the hon. Member for West Bromwich, ...

Tony McNulty | 457 c456 (Link to this contribution) I fervently hope so. I want to move to a stage where we can determine, one way or the other, whether...

Nick Clegg | 457 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I shall conclude, because there is not much time in this short debate. We have reservation...

William Cash | 457 c435 (Link to this contribution) The Minister may know that I sympathise with the Government’s dilemma to a very considerable extent,...

Tony McNulty | 457 c434 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 t...

John Denham | 457 c439 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may or may not share my enthusiasm for some elements of the French system in this con...

David Howarth | 457 c451 (Link to this contribution) Is not the alternative approach to the matters in the order to allow questioning post-charge and wir...

Subjects

Electronic surveillance

Human rights

Prosecutions

Terrorism

Security

Anti-terrorism control orders

Legislation

Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2007

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