Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
This country faces significant thre...
My right hon. Friend used the term “wide-ranging”. Is not that the key thing? The legislation sho...
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He and other hon. Members will see that much of this Bill is ...
My right hon. Friend may be aware that, on the previous Bill dealing with the same subject matter...
I know that my hon. Friend has taken a great interest in these matters for many years. I will lis...
My right hon. Friend mentioned my constituent Nick Bailey, the police officer at Salisbury. Wilts...
I am happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance. I think that the whole House has commended Dete...
Given what the Home Secretary is saying about Russia’s attempts to undermine our society and enga...
The Cabinet Office is the Department responsible for overseeing elections and looking at allegati...
Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is also about reducing the risk to the UK’s interests...
Yes, I can confirm that. The powers in the Bill are designed to better protect us against all typ...
Before the Home Secretary moves on, I just want to take him back to the issue of hostile states a...
I have not had a discussion directly with the PSNI on this, but the Department has had discussion...
The Home Secretary will know that I share his strong belief in taking strong action against the t...
That is an important question from the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, and I want to be clea...
Like my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), I ...
The objective is to allow for the fact that it is quite possible for someone to accidentally come...
I am just intrigued why it is three times and whether this always has to be done in context. Clea...
The right hon. Gentleman is right to make that point. Some people have already made similar comme...
I can tell my right hon. Friend that he has my wholehearted support for the Bill. It is one thing...
I will give my hon. Friend two responses. First, he may know that the Secretary of State for Digi...
The Home Secretary is being generous in giving way. The Bill will make it illegal to watch the st...
It is not an offence for internet companies to stream such material under UK law—currently—and th...
The Home Secretary is being very generous in giving way. He mentioned that social media providers...
The hon. Gentleman mentioned YouTube, and I think—if I remember the number correctly—that it has ...
Further to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Neil Coy...
The hon. Gentleman makes another good point in this debate. He is right to say that many leading ...
I am slightly confused about the Government’s direction of travel. I think that there is quite wi...
To be absolutely clear, what the right hon. Gentleman referred to as the three clicks approach—le...
I am very sorry to labour this point with my right hon. Friend, but one of the most critical aspe...
As my hon. Friend knows, because I have already said it, I met the companies he has mentioned and...
Why has the Home Secretary decided not to include the Australian scheme using the declared area o...
The hon. Gentleman mentions the Australian extraterritorial offence that has been created, and I ...
The Home Secretary has my support on the thrust of the Bill. However, on matters such as the one ...
Yes, I absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. As with many of these types of measures, th...
I support the measures that the Home Secretary is outlining. In the briefing documents he sent be...
Yes, I am.
The Bill will update the law relating to terrorism reinsurance. The attack last ...
In 2017, as the House has heard, the UK was subject to five terrorist attacks, which killed 36 pe...
I did not intend to intervene—I will speak at length later—but is the right hon. Lady aware that ...
Just to advise Members who may want to speak at length later, they will have up to 15 minutes and...
I have visited Prevent programmes and I am aware that good work is being done, but the figure tha...
My right hon. Friend is making a fair point. I think we need some sort of Prevent strategy, so I ...
I accept the need for a programme that does what Prevent purports to do, but there is a danger. I...
I am listening carefully to the right hon. Lady. Just to clarify, is she saying that she would re...
I said quite clearly that we would seek to review it. We could not at this point press the pause ...
The director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, said in a speech in October last year that the ongoin...
I think I have said three times that we broadly support the Bill in principle, but we are Her Maj...
On that point, does the right hon. Lady agree that we should be concerned by reports that emerged...
I think Members are seeking to have me say what they want me to say and are not listening to my s...
I completely agree with my right hon. Friend on that point. We are very lucky in Wales that, than...
I agree with my hon. Friend. That is what we are hearing from police leaders all the time. They w...
Before I bring in the next speaker, just a reminder—I have told speakers that this is a very impo...
Terrorism blights lives and in some cases, of course, it takes lives. We have already heard from ...
My right hon. Friend has talked about terrorist methods continually changing. Did not the situati...
Yes, that did happen, but I would go as far as to say—reflecting what Andrew Parker said—that the...
Does my right hon. Friend also agree that one acute difference between Irish terrorism and the th...
The Irish people endured the horror of terrorism for a very long time, and we should not be compl...
Did the right hon. Gentleman meet any representatives from Muslim communities who perceived it to...
There is an argument about how Prevent is perceived and how communities in which the co-ordinator...
It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr Hayes), w...
I just want to clarify the point about the Investigatory Powers Act. It is important for the Hous...
I appreciate the Minister’s intervention. As I outlined, my hon. and learned Friend made these po...
The hon. Gentleman’s description of the “distinct Scottish approach” to Prevent sounded exactly l...
I think that it is a resource issue. In Scotland, resources are invested to ensure that the neces...
Is the hon. Gentleman saying that there is no difference whatsoever between English Prevent and S...
I have to say that I am no expert on the delivery of the Prevent strategy in England. I represent...
The hon. Gentleman said that the Scottish approach was distinct.
It is distinct in terms of its success, in comparison with the success of the strategy as it curr...
In what way?
I have already outlined in what way.
The Scottish Government recognise that resilient commu...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands).
I agree that we should be debating these issues, but can the hon. Gentleman point to anywhere in ...
That is pretty much everywhere, and I will give the right hon. Gentleman an example. How about an...
I am not a liberal on any of these issues, but there is a problem with this. One difficulty the s...
The right hon. Gentleman is right to raise that question, but I do not think that is the case. We...
I am not going to give way again on that point.
If I may, I will move on to the issue of in...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Alex Chalk), and I echo the spirit of ...
Since this is the first time that I have seen you since the weekend, Madam Deputy Speaker, may I ...
My hon. Friend knows that the Bill contains provisions to lengthen both the period that prisoners...
I thank my hon. Friend. In fact, in my notes for this debate I have written next to my previous p...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Henley (John Howell). I have enjoyed listening to ...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Belfast East (Gavin Robinson), particularly as at ...
Does the hon. Gentleman share the concern of those of us on this side of the Chamber within our p...
I absolutely do share those concerns, and I sincerely hope that the Bill presents the opportunity...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes). I have sat here and ...
I may be able to help the hon. Gentleman. Approximately 40 have been prosecuted so far—either bec...
I thank the Minister very much for updating the House. I note that 40 is fewer than the 54, the n...
It is a pleasure to be called to speak in this debate and particularly to follow the hon. Member ...
I come to this debate wanting to be positive about attempts by the Government to give our police ...
Thank you for allowing me to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker. As this is the first speech I ...
The first duty of any state is to protect its citizens. Historically, this has meant protecting o...
This has been a wide-ranging and thoughtful debate.
Two years ago, our late friend and parl...
We obviously understand the need to detain individuals in certain circumstances, particularly at ...
I very much agree with my hon. Friend on that point. How we draw the law precisely in this area i...
This has been a good debate, and Members on both sides of the House have demonstrated a desire to...
Order. Forgive me. Am I right in thinking that the Minister of State is approaching a peroration ...
The usual channels have taken over. I have lost the first battle.
In summing up, I apologis...
The Chair was merely making an inquiry, and there was a question mark at the end of it, but I get...