Parliamentary search - Counter-Terrorism Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

703 c632-740

Session

2007-08

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Counter-Terrorism Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 65-EN also published.
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Manningham-Buller | 703 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to be in your Lordships’ House. I thank noble Lords for the very warm welco...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c740 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I most certainly will do that. I was about to mention the talk on the Clapham omnibus. Cle...

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Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has not dealt with my point that the Explanatory Notes give no clue about t...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 703 c741 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I adjourn the House, I should give an enormous thanks to all noble Lords who have p...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c739 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is difficult to answer because I would tread into areas where I may say things that I...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c739 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord if I got the wrong end of that, but there has been reference...

Lord Dear | 703 c739 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for the sake of the record, I was not comparing Nazi Germany with this country. I was mere...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c734-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a fascinating and very constructive debate this afternoon and evening. Noble L...

Baroness Neville-Jones | 703 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we appear to agree on the principle of not doing the terrorists’ work, but the sentiment i...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that would be totally bonkers. I do not know where the two-to-one prediction comes from. I...

Baroness Hanham | 703 c731-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an astounding debate, because many views expressed across the House have not...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 703 c728-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had about as powerful a series of speeches laying out the principle of the Bill as...

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 703 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I recently had the privilege to be permitted to visit our troops in Helmand province ...

Lord Soley | 703 c724-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some months ago in a debate in this House I suggested to the Government that we should ado...

Lord Monson | 703 c722-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the majority of noble Lords who have spoken today, I shall confine my remarks to the ...

Lord Young of Norwood Green | 703 c720-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, on her maiden speech, which com...

Lord Lyell | 703 c717-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we keep hearing the figure of 42 days for detention. I take your Lordships back 36 years, ...

Lord Joffe | 703 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will focus only on the proposed extension of the maximum period of detention by a furthe...

Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | 703 c714-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with a sense of trepidation that I address your Lordships’ House this evening, as I ...

Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 703 c700-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have two speeches prepared: one on post-charge questioning and the other on 42 days. I t...

Lord Judd | 703 c698-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, techniques of terrorism cannot be disinvented. The challenge is to contain and minimise th...

Lord Cope of Berkeley | 703 c704-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciated that last point because we lived in Berkeley for several years. I shall com...

Baroness Mallalieu | 703 c702-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot help feeling that something has gone badly wrong. If someone had told me in 1997 ...

Baroness Stern | 703 c708-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and want to confine my contribution t...

Lord Morris of Aberavon | 703 c706-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I intend to concentrate on the most controversial aspect of the Bill—the 42 days’ detentio...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 703 c712-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am tempted to say that we have reached the stage of the debate where most of what needs ...

Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 703 c710-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for more than six years, I was Lord Advocate in Scotland. As such, I was for the most part...

Lord Dholakia | 703 c695-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to concentrate on two issues, neither of which contains any legal arguments: the ro...

Lord Ahmed | 703 c692-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no doubt in my mind that we have to defend our country and its citizens against t...

Lord Dubs | 703 c691-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am privileged to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mayhew, even if he took from my...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 703 c683-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot resist saying how delicious it is to have the noble and learned Lords, Lord Falco...

Lord Goodhart | 703 c681-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, who has spoken today with all his u...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 703 c679-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is my privilege to continue my long-standing interest in this matter by serving current...

Baroness Park of Monmouth | 703 c677-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have had to do a little rewriting—I hope that I can read it. I listened with great respe...

Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 703 c689-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate has been dominated so strongly by the 42 day issue that it is tempting to choo...

Lord Brett | 703 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise as the least qualified person to participate in this debate. I have no expertise in...

Lord Sewel | 703 c687-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the last time we debated pre-charge detention I moved the 60-day amendment, and lost, so I...

Lord Steyn | 703 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not spoken in a general debate since I made my maiden speech in May 1995. Rightly o...

Lord Imbert | 703 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise. The only excuse I can offer is that reaching for my notes is sometimes diffic...

Lord Bach | 703 c671 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again, and do so with great reluctance. Yet it is u...

Bishop of Leicester | 703 c663-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are those, I understand, who from time to time assert that the Church of England spe...

Lord Harris of Haringey | 703 c665-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as the Home Secretary’s representative on the Metropolita...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 703 c671-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, during the four years in which I served on the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Com...

Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 703 c673-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in her excellent maiden speech, the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, said that ther...

Lord Condon | 703 c675-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a former police commissioner I support the aims of the Bill and most of its proposals. ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 703 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, state opening has indeed been announced. It will take place on 4 December. I always get th...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 703 c741 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I look forward to taking part in October and November. Will we be going into December as w...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 703 c742 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I imagine that our debate on 42 days will take place on the second day of Committee, which...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c742 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can the noble Baroness tell us when we are likely to be dealing with the 42-day issue? Tha...

Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 703 c648-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I now turn to the Bill. It is beyond doubt that we are being threatened now by forces of t...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 703 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was delighted and privileged to hear the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Manni...

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | 703 c651-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, who has joined us ...

Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale | 703 c648 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, on ...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 703 c653-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like everyone else, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, on a memora...

Lord Goldsmith | 703 c655-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for over six years I had the privilege and burden of dealing with the issues with which yo...

Lord Dear | 703 c657-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other Members of your Lordships' House, I too will concentrate my remarks on the prop...

Bishop of Chelmsford | 703 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the night of 10 September 2001, my wife and I were on a plane from Washington to London...

Lord West of Spithead | 703 c632-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. We face an unprecedented terroris...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 703 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I completely accept that it was in place at that time. The extent to which it could be use...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 703 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I look forward keenly to the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller. ...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 703 c645 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, at that stage supported the 90 days, but, even then, the 2004 test for threshold c...

Baroness Neville-Jones | 703 c637-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let me make it clear that we on these Benches take the terrorist threat to this country ev...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 703 c641-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in October 1963, the Tryweryn dam and reservoir were opened in the heart of mid-Wales by t...

Lord Imbert | 703 c667-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when Members of another place and your Lordships’ House insist that the 28-day extension p...

Lord Bach | 703 c670 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. The House is trying to have speeches no more than ...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 703 c719-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lyell, equated the situation that we now face with that in Northern I...

Lord Sheikh | 703 c661-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill contains points that raise significant concern. The key concern is the period of...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 703 c739 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given the nature of the questions from both Front Benches and around the House, could the ...

Subjects

Crime prevention

Criminal investigation

Crime

Administration of justice

Detainees

Coroners

Finance

Facilities

Police

Powers

Natural gas

Sentencing

Terrorism

Security

Legislation

Counter-terrorism Bill 2007-08

Contains statistics

Yes

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