Results 1-20 of 31 for terrorism speaker:Diane Abbott

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-Terrorism Control Orders (25 Jun 2009)

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to bring forward proposals to amend counter-terrorism legislation in light of the recent Law Lords ruling on control orders; and if he will make a statement.

Police Crowd Control (12 May 2009)

Diane Abbott: ...right to protest has been curtailed through legislation over the decades. The Public Order Act 1986 gave senior police officers the power to impose conditions on a protest. Under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, senior police officers can grant stop-and-search powers to other police officers to search anyone. Although ostensibly directed against terrorism, section 44 powers have been...

Police Crowd Control (12 May 2009)

Diane Abbott: ..., which I believe was wholly unsatisfactory. The fact remains that no policeman has been held responsible for what happened to Harry Stanley. He had nothing to do with any crime, criminality or terrorism; he was a carpenter having a drink in a pub in Hackney. His only fault was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ministers will remember the much delayed and much criticised IPCC...

Police Crowd Control (12 May 2009)

Diane Abbott: ..., says: "Few would argue against proportionate interferences with that right to protect people and property. Yet the past 15 years have so blurred the lines between civil, public order and anti-terror powers that we risk turning constables (whose traditional role was to keep the peace) into bouncers charged with shutting down demonstrations." Although the majority of police at the G20...

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: ..., the first duty of Parliament is the safety of the realm. It is because I believe that the proposals on 42-day detention will make us less safe, not more safe, that I oppose them. I do not take terrorism lightly. I am a Londoner and I heard the last major IRA bomb, at Canary Wharf, from my kitchen in east London. Like thousands of Londoners, I waited for the early-morning call that...

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: ...the law. Everybody knows that the provisions will impact disproportionately on the Muslim and ethnic minority communities. Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities. Ministers are talking about people such as my constituents, so when Muslim boys...

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: ...feeling troubled, bitter and angry? Would not that be entirely counter-productive in terms of community cohesion and getting the intelligence that is the only way in which we will effectively fight terrorism?

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: ...on their way to school, college or work who, had their journey been 10 minutes earlier or later, would have been caught up in them. Those of us on mainland Britain who lived through the IRA terrorist bombing campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s, and now through 7/7, do not want to be told by Ministers that if we query some of the provisions of the Bill, it is because we take terrorism lightly....

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: Those of us who were in Parliament in the 1990s were asked to vote year after year on the prevention of terrorism legislation, and we know that on a whipped vote parliamentary scrutiny is not as valuable as my Front-Bench team suggests.

Written Answers — Home Department: National Security (28 Feb 2008)

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral statement of 14 November 2007 on national security, in which areas the new dedicated regional counter terrorism units are based; how many people work in each unit; how many of the staff are (a) police and (b) support staff in each unit; and how many of the staff of each unit have been (i) recruited...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Draft Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2007)

Diane Abbott: ...for pre-charge detention. We believe that far from making us safer, detaining people for months at a time without trial could exacerbate community tensions. He said that any change would apply to terrorism alone. Will the Bill state that the increase in pre-trial detention applies only to people prosecuted under terrorism legislation?

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism (30 Oct 2006)

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effect of institutional racism in the police force on anti-terrorism strategies in the community.

Point of Order: Whitsun Adjournment (25 May 2006)

Diane Abbott: ...is partly what happens inside it, partly the dubious legal basis on which the Americans are holding the people and, finally, the negative effect that its very existence has on the war against terror. The Americans would argue that they are entitled to hold the people indefinitely without due process, as that would be internationally recognised, because they are at war. When it is suggested...

Point of Order: Whitsun Adjournment (25 May 2006)

Diane Abbott: ...the issue of Guantanamo in more emphatic and public terms than he has hitherto. The House recently debated the report on the 7/7 bombings in this country. As a House of Commons, we talk about anti-terrorism measures and legislation, policing, enforcement and law and order to ward off the threat of terrorism. However, as long as young Muslim men and women, wherever they might be, including...

Business of the House: London Bombings (11 May 2006)

Diane Abbott: ...closest to me were safe. The news was especially shattering coming, as it did, the day after our triumph with the Olympics. Does the Home Secretary agree that any successful long-term counter-terrorism strategy must have a community cohesion strand? Will he give the House an assurance that the round-table meetings and work with the Muslim community that came after 7/7 will be followed...

London Demonstration (Policing) (6 Feb 2006)

Diane Abbott: Does the Home Secretary agree that if sections of the Muslim community had sought to demonstrate peacefully against the war in Iraq or what I believe to be the excesses of the so-called war on terror, some of us in the House would have supported them, and the entire House would accept that they had an absolute right to do it? But to stage a demonstration that is a clear incitement to violence...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Diane Abbott: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Muslim community is united against terrorism, but expressing great unhappiness about the Bill? Its members have followed the Bill with considerable attention and believe that it is targeted at them. Given the concern in the community, is not the fact that the Bill contains a provision for 90 days' detention without trial unlikely to create the kind of...

Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill (20 Jun 2005)

Diane Abbott: ...from a gun fired in another room that passed through the wall. In the past two weeks, people were shot up in a Turkish restaurant in Dalston by people travelling past on a motorbike. Imagine the terror experienced by people in a restaurant, at a bus stop or walking up the street when they see two guys go past on a motorbike spraying bullets. The random nature of gun crime in the city and...

Home Affairs and Communities (23 May 2005)

Diane Abbott: To return to the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the whole House supports effective legislation to prevent terrorism; the problem with that ill-thought-out legislation is that, in the short term, it will bear down most heavily on our Muslim and other immigrant communities. Ill-thought-out legislation that cuts across centuries of civil liberties is more likely to create terrorists than to fight...

Christmas Adjournment (21 Dec 2004)

Miss Diane Abbott: ...; all that is being suggested is that, as British nationals, they are entitled to due process. Yet despite the fact that Britain is supposed to be America's closest ally in the war against terrorism, we cannot even obtain due process for our own nationals. I believe that Guantanamo Bay, like Abu Ghraib, undermines the moral case presented for the war against terror. I would not want to...