Parliamentary search - Counter-terrorism

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

462 c671-88

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Robert N Wareing | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) May I first congratulate my right hon. Friend on her appointment? I lived through the terror of the ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that airport operators will have heard the hon. Gentleman’s point. As we have introduced i...

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Lord Touhig | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) May I echo the comments of hon. Members throughout the Chamber to my right hon. Friend, and say that...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have had the opportunity to speak twice to my United States counterpart, Secretary Chertoff. ...

Shailesh Vara | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Home Secretary on her appointment and wish her well, especially given the enormou...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I did not always see eye to eye in my previous job, but I wholeheartedly agree wi...

David Winnick | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on the manner in which she has reacted in her first few da...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give that commitment. It is obviously important that chief constables can make appropriat...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend. The increase in resources that the Government have already put in plac...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c685 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has personal experience relating to this issue. I agree that there wi...

Tobias Ellwood | 462 c684-5 (Link to this contribution) What links this event to that of 9/11, Bali, Madrid and indeed 7 July is the very sad fact that all ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c685 (Link to this contribution) I can tell my right hon. Friend that we do not have specific plans for putting those sorts of restri...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 462 c685 (Link to this contribution) May I follow up that particular question? Does the Minister recall that during the IRA bombing of th...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c686 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my right hon. Friend. He is absolutely right that, as I suggested in my statem...

Elliot Morley | 462 c685-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, commend the Home Secretary for her response—and, indeed, the response at all levels—to this ...

Patrick Mercer | 462 c686 (Link to this contribution) I should like to take the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwo...

Julian Lewis | 462 c681 (Link to this contribution) In his major speech on terrorism last October and again over the weekend, the Prime Minister drew a ...

Gavin Strang | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that because even a primitive car bomb can inflict colossal carnage,...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) I very much look forward to the hon. Gentleman’s contribution to the consultation on anti-terrorism ...

William Cash | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary rightly said that there must be compliance with the law, but the question is: whi...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) The responsibility for counter-terrorism is not devolved, so the doubling of those resources, partic...

Sandra Osborne | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) May I add my appreciation to the Muslim community in Scotland and its representatives for their imme...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c680 (Link to this contribution) Yes; I join the hon. Gentleman in thanking the Scottish Executive and other officials in Scotland fo...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c681 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that the RICU, to which the hon. Gentleman has referred, has been set up. It is in its...

Eric Illsley | 462 c681 (Link to this contribution) A few months ago, I tabled questions in support of moves by the British Compressed Gases Association...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c681 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an important point. As I have suggested, once the immediate investigation of...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c682 (Link to this contribution) I am recently enough a business manager not to upset my erstwhile colleagues by making rash statemen...

Bernard Jenkin | 462 c682 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. Will she enlarge on the timetable for future legislati...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those words. It is certainly my aim, as it was having re-read the stateme...

Emily Thornberry | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend to her new post. Is she aware that, despite the shrill voices ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c682 (Link to this contribution) I started my statement by emphasising the need not to speculate at this time on the nature of those ...

John Butterfill | 462 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary is probably aware that some press reports have indicated that at least one of the...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c682 (Link to this contribution) Although I am very sympathetic about what must have been a very difficult situation for those passen...

David Marshall | 462 c682 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is no doubt aware that hundreds of passengers at Glasgow airport were confined ...

Julian Brazier | 462 c683 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Home Secretary and all those involved in dealing with all three incidents. ...

Barry Gardiner | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) Doubtless, consideration was given on Friday and Saturday as to whether Saturday evening’s concert a...

Speaker | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are running over time as it is.

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend that the work in all our airports, and all our police forces, h...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously important, when considering the level of threat, to look across a whole range of sec...

Margaret Moran | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) I should like to add my thanks, and those of the Muslim community leaders in my constituency, whom I...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c686 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. As I said earlier, regardless of who is involved in the ind...

Tony Lloyd | 462 c686 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend to her new post. Her measured tones, and those of the Prime Minister,...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c688 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will understand that, quite often, events move very quickly, and it is...

Keith Vaz | 462 c688 (Link to this contribution) I join every other Member of the House in congratulating my right hon. Friend on the proper, measure...

Speaker | 462 c688 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c688 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my right hon. Friend. It will be a priority, as we introduce proposals and dev...

John Robertson | 462 c688 (Link to this contribution) I join my right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim S...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c687-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. One of the tasks, of course, during the incidents was to look carefully at ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c674 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his words of welcome and support. I very much appreciated, too,...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the weekend’s events. First and fo...

Nick Clegg | 462 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement and for the updates she provi...

Mark Field | 462 c676 (Link to this contribution) May I associate myself with the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howd...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c676 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the points that my hon. Friend makes about the considerable hard work and st...

George Howarth | 462 c677 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome my right hon. Friend to her new and awesome responsibilities and congratulate her on...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. I commend his constituents who live and work in that ar...

Jim Sheridan | 462 c676 (Link to this contribution) Twenty-three hours and 59 minutes after the horrific attack on Saturday, Glasgow airport was fully o...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c675 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments and the support he showed during our conversations over ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c677 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend. As my predecessor made clear at the beginning of June, we want to take...

James Clappison | 462 c677 (Link to this contribution) Whatever the circumstances of present events, is the Home Secretary aware that in serious criminal c...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c677 (Link to this contribution) I agree that, in some cases, the transmission of what I would call extreme views—full stop—has led t...

Tony Wright | 462 c677 (Link to this contribution) If an important part of being British is agreeing about how we disagree, does the Home Secretary agr...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c679 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point from what is obviously a position of knowledge. I we...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 462 c679 (Link to this contribution) I represent the largest number of Muslim voters of any official Opposition Member of Parliament. Fol...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I understand that it was a very good event that the Secretary of...

Khalid Mahmood | 462 c678 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her new post and on all the steadfast work that she has done ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c678 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does a very good job of expressing our thanks and the concerns and fears of those...

Derek Conway | 462 c678 (Link to this contribution) Is the Home Secretary aware that extremist fundamentalists have described the attack on the ““Tiger ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that the support from our communities has actually been very positive. Whoever was involved ...

Angus Robertson | 462 c679 (Link to this contribution) At this difficult time, may I commend the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister on their new respons...

Paul Farrelly | 462 c679 (Link to this contribution) May I also congratulate the police on the speed of their response? In my area that includes Stafford...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c679 (Link to this contribution) It is, of course, not possible at present for us to know the origins or details of those who have be...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and I wholeheartedly agree with what he said. I am very encouraged by the cle...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c685 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously the case that those people who are expert in protective security—I believe that we a...

David Jones | 462 c684 (Link to this contribution) The attack on Glasgow airport suggests that ports and airports throughout the country are likely to ...

Speaker | 462 c687 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must stop the hon. Lady.

Linda Gilroy | 462 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) I join other hon. Members in welcoming the sure-footed way in which my right hon. Friend is approach...

John Redwood | 462 c685 (Link to this contribution) Is there a danger that placing restrictions on car access to Heathrow will divert travellers and ter...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c686 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has considerable expertise in fighting terrorist activity. I understa...

David Davis | 462 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) May I start by welcoming the Home Secretary to her new post, especially in these uniquely difficult ...

Baroness Smith of Malvern | 462 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right that we need carefully to consider the design of major transport hubs ...

Subjects

Criminal investigation

Cars

Airports

Bombs

Intelligence services

Greater London

Police

Terrorism

Security

Islam

Glasgow Airport

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