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Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (19 Nov 2008)

Simon Hughes: There are lovely people with doctorates and, as one would expect, many are the constituents of my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (David Howarth), but we are not talking about them. My second point follows on from what the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham said. I also understand that there is a debate to be had about the relative merit of holding samples as...

Business of the House (16 Oct 2008) has video

Simon Hughes: ...Hall, and I am sure that there would be interest across the House among Members from all parties in a substantive debate? Ministers have always been accommodating if the time has been provided. May I return to matters raised by the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May), which are of huge significance in relation to Home Office business this week? First, to go back to Monday night,...

Identity Cards Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Simon Hughes: ...them there, some possibly, as we have heard recently, in unacceptable ways. Colleagues in our party argued the case consistently in the other place. It is a great regret to me and many people outside this place that Conservative and Cross-Bench colleagues and Labour Back Benchers did not stay with my colleagues and take the Government to the wire. It would have been a perfectly...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Mar 2006)

Simon Hughes: ...general election when the Home Secretary gave the explanation that he gave to the House tonight? Does the hon. and learned Gentleman agree that the new interpretation has arisen only since, as he said, the suggestion of primary legislation to do with compulsory ID cards?

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications Relating to Entries in the Register (18 Oct 2005)

Simon Hughes: May I check that the hon. Gentleman and I share the same interpretation? The announcement yesterday that one could get a £30 identity card and buy a passport separately does not mean that, when one buys a passport, one would have the option of saying, "Thank you for the passport but I don't want the ID card." Unless the amendment is accepted, one would be made to have the ID card.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)

Simon Hughes: Do the right hon. Gentleman's remarks mean that it is now the Conservative party's settled opinion that ID cards are unacceptable in this country? Will he make it clear that he is taking a position that we have held for 50 years or more and that many Labour Members have held for all their political lives? The Bill will not get through this Parliament, because it will not obtain a majority in...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (20 Dec 2004)

Mr Simon Hughes: Will the Secretary of State deal with an apparent failure of logic in his case? We are opposed to ID cards; he is in favour. If a police officer tracks down a criminal, terrorist, hijacker or trafficker and they do not have a card with them, how does the fact that they have to possess a card but can produce it a week or two weeks later aid the police officer in identifying the person in front...

Home Affairs (29 Nov 2004)

Mr Simon Hughes: I am not persuaded about the case for ID cards, and I do not think that the Home Secretary will persuade me. Is the difference in practice or in principle? I share his view that the Government's duty is to protect the state and citizens, but does he share my view that for a free-born British citizen who has not been convicted of any offence, the presumption should be that the state does not...

Public Bill Committee: Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill: Registration Card (16 May 2002)

Mr Simon Hughes: I appreciate that further scrutiny is ensured by the order-making process. I also understand the Minister's assurance, and I accept that the measure is not intended to be a method of facilitating an ID card. I know about the anticipated consultation paper—there are five weeks until the summer recess, so that is the time we have for it. It would be helpful if the Minister and her...

Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill: Loans for Students (15 Feb 1990)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...their legislation, but I warn Conservative Members that some of their hon. Friends in another place will not support the Bill. Indeed, the measure would have benefited from a delay for further consideration, and the same could be said of other Government proposals. Perhaps the Government should have been wiser and taken, say, a year's delay in implementing the Bills on football ID cards...