Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill

After that jovial urgent question on proxy voting, I feel like some purveyor of doom, as the Secu...

I am pleased that the designated area offence, for which I and others have long been pushing, has...

The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, but if someone goes to a designated area, their reasonable...

I seek clarification. In previous debates, I understood the designated area approach to mean that...

The original offence always required a reasonable excuse. The right hon. Gentleman will be a supp...

As the Minister will recall, some of the concerns that I expressed during the Bill’s earlier stag...

The hon. Gentleman has made some very valid points. Provisions in schedule 3 and 7 to the 2000 Ac...

May I briefly return the Minister to the list of reasonable excuses? Will he confirm that it woul...

Yes. That is important. Someone who claims to be an aid worker or a doctor will be expected to pr...

If a person from this country were to go to one of the prohibited areas and then come back, would...

As I think my hon. Friend will know, when it comes to intelligence and investigations, such decis...

I am pleased to hear what the Minister is saying, and I commend the work of my Front-Bench collea...

The hon. Gentleman has been a good campaigner on that issue, which he has brought to the attentio...

As far as I can see, those far-right organisations are winning the hybrid war against society. Wi...

Terrorist financing, including of the far-right group that was proscribed 18 months ago, is worry...

What conversations has the Minister had with social media companies to try to get terrorist mater...

The UK was the first country in the world to set up a counter-terrorism referral unit. It is in t...

I thank the Minister for the fact that the Government are not opposing amendment 13 made by the O...

We have not formed the terms of reference. The timescale is six months; within that period we wil...

The Minister is making some very thoughtful comments. Will he accept that any strategy must not f...

The hon. Gentleman is right: this will be a public review and we will be able to debate its resul...

Programmes like Prevent and Channel are needed because of the grooming the Minister was talking a...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. In protecting people from being groomed and exploited, we ...

I apologise for not being present for the start of the Minister’s speech. I listened carefully to...

My right hon. Friend knows about these challenges from his own experience. In some parts of North...

I am grateful to the Security Minister for his opening remarks, and for his tone and the consensu...

I echo the comments of the hon. Member for Torfaen (Nick Thomas-Symonds) about the consensual app...

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I am not saying that the review will be watered down in any way, but I will give way to the Minis...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I would not like him to think that we ordered the review bec...

I do not dispute anything that the Minister has just said, but there is a huge clamour for review...

I rise to speak to amendment (a), in my name, to Lords amendment 3. Two years ago, in the space o...

My hon. Friend raises an important point. Churches often go on aid missions and peace missions, s...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Church and other faith-based organisations are often involved...

In my experience, a Department such as DFID will sometimes send in a project team to do peace bui...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Aid workers—whether directly employed by DFID or other do...

It is a real privilege to follow the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg). Had h...

Far be it from me to be a discordant voice in this House, but I have real concerns that the House...

With the leave of the House, I will respond to the points of hon. and right hon. Members. First, ...

So, if a person wishes to go to a designated area, that person should, perhaps on Foreign Office ...

The decision that we took around this offence is that it is not a permission—something that you o...

I thank the Minister for his response, particularly for what he has said about the potential for ...

I would be delighted to look at that. I also remind the hon. Gentleman that the Crown Prosecution...

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 12.

With this it will be convenient to consider Lords amendments 14, 15 and 17 to 42.

This group of amendments relates to the new port and border powers in schedule 3 to the Bill to t...

I again welcome the approach that the Security Minister has taken in reaching consensus on these ...

The House will be relieved to hear that I intend to be even more succinct in my comments on the p...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands). H...

With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will respond.

I am pleased that the ho...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is important that as a society—not just as a Government a...

My hon. Friend makes a strong observation about the rest of the world. Now is not the time for us...

Will the Minister give way?

No, I will press on to the end. I do not think that my right hon. Friend has been in the debate.<...

Obviously, the B word is my favourite word at the moment. On information sharing, does the Minist...

Within the remit of the Bill, we should remember that intelligence is the preserve of the nation ...