EU Council and Woolwich

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments about the dreadful events in Woolwich and for t...

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Order. Before I call hon. Members to ask further questions arising from the Prime Minister’s stat...

On Syria, may I put it to my right hon. Friend, first, that this is fundamentally a religious war...

I always listen carefully to my right hon. Friend. I would just make two points. The first is tha...

On Syria, does the Prime Minister accept that that elusive but very necessary comprehensive peace...

The right hon. Gentleman is right that the role of Iran is something that should be discussed; th...

There was much in what my right hon. Friend said with which I would agree, but in relation to the...

I very much respect my right hon. and learned Friend and his views. The direct answer to his ques...

Exactly a year ago, the Home Secretary said in her introduction to the draft Communications Data ...

I have great respect for the former Home Secretary, and I know that he knows how important the is...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s efforts to get us cheaper energy through shale gas, but did the EU...

I think it is important that we ensure that Europe does not make the situation worse through new ...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement of the taskforce on extremism. I see that as an ackno...

The right hon. Lady speaks with immense expertise and experience on this issue. In fact, I was th...

Was there any discussion at the Council on the completion of the single market in services? If no...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point about one of the positive benefits that we can get ...

Surely the Prime Minister must accept that Britain’s insistence on Europe opening the door to mor...

I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but on this occasion I have to disagree with h...

Will Parliament definitely get the opportunity not just to be updated and kept informed, but to v...

One of the things that this Government have done is allow Parliament to hold votes on issues that...

Has the Prime Minister noticed during the last few minutes how little enthusiasm there is in the ...

The hon. Gentleman should look at the effects of the EU arms embargo. Did it stop Assad getting e...

I am sure we all welcome the progress that the Prime Minister has made on tackling tax evasion, b...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for asking that question. What we have done in the Eur...

I welcome the establishment of the taskforce and the Prime Minister’s commitment this afternoon t...

I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman and for the work of his Select Committee. The p...

The Foreign Secretary may well update us on the decisions made, but will the Prime Minister take ...

As I said, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has regularly updated the House on Syria in...

On behalf of the people of Woolwich, I thank both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposi...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for all that he has done in Greenwich and Woolwich to bring peop...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement about his taskforce. Does he agree that now—in the ...

My hon. Friend has made an excellent point. I think that what we can do, through the words that w...

I speak on behalf of every single resident of the borough of Rochdale when I say that we are imme...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he has said on behalf of everyone in Rochdale. It is clear th...

May I associate my colleagues, and the other communities in south London, with the Prime Minister...

My right hon. Friend is entirely right to say that there should be no knee-jerk reactions. We do ...

When the Prime Minister said that the EU arms embargo has helped extremists on both sides, was he...

Clearly, parts of the Syrian opposition do include extremists and, regrettably, armed extremists....

Terrorists hide among, come from and are sustained by groups of people around them. Will the Prim...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right in the way he puts it. It is not enough to target and go after...

I join the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in relaying on behalf of my constituen...

I thank the hon. Lady for what she says about the strength of feeling in the communities that she...

What will be the effect of this threat on the safety of the minority Christian population in Syri...

How best to ensure a Syria that can protect minorities is an important issue. I would challenge t...

Is not the Prime Minister aware that he is playing with fire when he talks about lifting the arms...

I would make two points to the hon. Gentleman. First, even with the arms embargo in place, arms h...

Further to that, does the Prime Minister believe that the fall of the arms embargo will help boos...

My hon. Friend makes the very good point that we need to engage with the Syrian opposition, and w...

I associate the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru with the Prime Minister’s words of condol...

I would not accept any linkage between UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights and the change in the...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s initiative in setting up the taskforce to which he has referred. H...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have a problem of radicalisation, sometimes taking place i...

Taking the Prime Minister back once again to the issue of Syria, there is a civil war going on in...

Where I agree with the hon. Gentleman is that the right answer is a political solution—a politica...

I strongly welcome what the Prime Minister said about shale gas; we had further good news about t...

The potential of shale gas is an important point, and what was said today about our reserves was ...

Surely the primary concern of this House should not be with the combatants in Syria, but with tho...

Where I agree with the hon. Lady is on the fact that we should be leading the way on humanitarian...

On the question of the EU and tax, will my right hon. Friend give the House an assurance that the...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to have raised this issue, because often people have said that...

The UK stands united, irrespective of colour, faith or origin, in its condemnation of the brutal ...

The hon. Gentleman puts it very well. It was very impressive how strong and unified the voices we...

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I call Dr Thérèse Coffey. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady did wish to catch my eye but—[Interruptio...

Thank you for calling me, Mr Speaker; I knew I would be lucky.

Let me take the Prime Minist...

I am glad that my hon. Friend has asked that question, because although the EITI is a rather unro...

It is truly shocking that the Prime Minister has twice now refused to guarantee a vote on his Syr...

The hon. Gentleman will have to await the outcome of the important negotiations on the justice an...

Following the dreadful events in Woolwich, there has been an outpouring of support for our armed ...

I will certainly join that campaign. Armed Forces day is a really good initiative and I have been...

The whole of the communities that make up Bradford condemn the killing of Lee Rigby and I am hear...

To give credit to Nick Robinson—which is not something that I always want to do—he immediately bl...

I call Dr Thérèse Coffey.

Hear, hear.

Thank you for your patience, Mr Speaker.

Let me ask the Prime Minister about energy, which ...

I am glad that my hon. Friend has been recognised. She is absolutely right, and we should be maki...

On tax evasion, what can be done with the British overseas territories, such as Gibraltar, that a...

I have some good news for the hon. Gentleman: because of the lead we have taken at the G8 and the...

No doubt the Prime Minister intends the exploitation of European shale gas reserves to replace ou...

I am not a protectionist; I do not believe that the aim of policy should be to cut off the access...

The Prime Minister has just said that it is best to act internationally, if we can, to tackle tax...

We have frequently acted on our own on tax evasion. It is better if we can do these things intern...

In recent weeks, I have held many meetings with organisations, including the Community Security T...

I am very grateful for what my hon. Friend says. I have met the CST relatively regularly. It is a...

Austerity policies are causing serious economic damage across the European Union. Among other thi...

There was a discussion about unemployment because, of course, the rising unemployment in many Eur...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on the excellent work that he has done in the European Union on...

I thank my hon. Friend very much for that question. Of course, we are cutting the rate of corpora...

Funding for the Prevent programme over the past three years has faced public sector pressures, as...

I think I am right in saying that for the past three years Prevent funding has been £39 million i...

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Order. I am keen to accommodate remaining colleagues but there is some considerable pressure on t...

The Prime Minister is right to say that we should not be cowed by terror and to reject knee-jerk ...

I do not think it is helpful to refer to taking action on communications data as a snoopers chart...

I welcome the pan-European resolve to tackle aggressive tax avoidance, but can the Prime Minister...

As I said at the press conference after the EU Council, I raised at the meeting of my business ad...

When our security services and the police are trying to piece together a terrorist attack, they n...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The draft Bill that we produced also had huge amounts of...

I welcome the statement from the European Council and the Government, which says that proper info...

That is the intention of this move. Having all countries sign up to an action plan for putting to...

Some of the comments that I received after the Woolwich attack could perhaps be most generously d...

My hon. Friend puts it very well. The point is that there is nothing in Islam that can justify th...

Last week, the Lewisham Islamic centre discovered that it was the intended destination of a BNP m...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right to say that the actions that were taken were not representative...

Tomorrow, Defence Secretaries from across NATO member countries meet in Brussels. Whether it be S...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. NATO is the cornerstone of the UK’s defence and should remain...

I appreciate that the Prime Minister has set up the taskforce, which is an important step, but we...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right that in order to respond to the challenge we need not just nati...

I, too, welcome the Prime Minister’s strong support for developing UK shale gas. Is he aware of t...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. I have not seen that specific report, but I will seek it...

How many other EU member states supported the UK Government in their wish to end the arms embargo...

At the European Council for Heads of State and Government, which I attended, there was not a long...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments on the single market in energy. Does he agree that ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The figures are striking if we look at what happened with sha...

It has been revealed in its five most recent years of published accounts that on UK revenues of £...

As someone behind me has just said, that is what happened under Labour. We need to make sure that...

Twenty-four hours before Drummer Rigby’s murder, I bid farewell to the last Ministry of Defence p...

I will ask the Ministry of Defence to look carefully at that. MOD police do important work, but a...

On Syria, like many Members and many people across the country I am increasingly uneasy about the...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Any peace process worth its name has to start with a peace con...

Did the Prime Minister mention at the EU Council the private Member’s Bill promoted by my hon. Fr...

My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that there was some interest among my fellow Heads of Gove...

The Prime Minister mentioned the Government taskforce, and I think he said he would welcome input...

Let me be clear in case I have misled anyone. It is a Government taskforce, but it should listen ...

As someone from a Muslim background whose father was an imam, I very much welcome the statement f...

I thank my hon. Friend for what he says and confirm that, in my view, the acts that took place on...

On the inside cover of Chairman Mao’s little red book of revolutionary war, which remains a terro...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Regrettably, this country has suffered from terrorists over m...

As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister may be aware, Drummer Lee Rigby joined the Army as a c...

My hon. Friend says it all, and it is fitting that his should be the last contribution—[Interrupt...

Following the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), Her Majesty’s ...

My hon. Friend raises an important point. First, we should pay tribute to British Muslims, Sikhs ...

I thank the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and all 62 Back Benchers who took part i...