Results 1-20 of 207 for terrorism speaker:Hazel Blears

Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [ Lords]: Antisocial Behaviour (2 Nov 2009) has video

Hazel Blears: ...police and a range of agencies working together, but we also need the determination to protect the decent people in our communities. I say to my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism that much good work has been done, and I welcome the Home Secretary's announcement on breaches of ASBOs, publicising ASBOs and giving more support to victims. However, I...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (3 Mar 2009) has video

Hazel Blears: ...the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir are kept under extremely close review by the Government. He will also know, however, that in order to proscribe a group, it has to be concerned with or involved in terrorism. The moral clarity that I absolutely believe we need to have in this area is to say that even where groups are not acting illegally, when they promote values that seek to undermine the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Violent Extremism (15 Jan 2008)

Hazel Blears: Let me first make it absolutely clear that the vast, overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country abhor violence, abhor terrorism and do not support the tiny minority of people involved in violent extremism. The work that my Department is funding, and will be funding in a substantially greater way over the next three years, is directed at building the resilience and strength of local...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

Hazel Blears: ...extremism in our communities. A tiny minority of people are involved in extremism. They do not speak for the vast majority of the UK's Muslim communities, who share a deep repugnance for acts of terror. None the less, the challenge leaves no room for complacency. We have to continue to work together with those in our Muslim communities who are committed to standing up for peace, respect...

Written Answers — Home Department: Operation Trident (4 May 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...In addition to this, it will receive £54.7 million in special formula grant, a consolidation of four former specific grants, as well as a range of other funding in specific grants, capital provision and to tackle terrorism.

Written Answers — Home Department: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (2 May 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...organisation in the UK since March 2001. As a consequence of being proscribed, fundraising, recruitment and a number of other activities by or on behalf of the LTTE are all offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. Prosecution for those offences is a matter for the police and the prosecution authorities.

Written Answers — Home Department: Proscribed Terrorist Organisations (2 May 2006)

Hazel Blears: The criteria for proscription are set out in section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000, as amended by section 21 of the Terrorism Act 2006. In reaching his decisions, the Secretary of State also takes into account a number of factors including: The nature and scale of an organisation's activities The specific threat that it poses to the UK The specific threat that it poses to British nationals...

Written Answers — Home Department: Port Security (18 Apr 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...that all relevant factors are taken into account. Following consultation and widespread support we have consolidated from 2006–07 a range of financial provisions previously made for counter terrorism (CT) policing. This includes provision for dedicated security posts (DSP) previously included in the general grant formula. North Wales will receive £3.7 million in DSP funding next...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (18 Apr 2006)

Hazel Blears: ..., West Yorkshire, Merseyside and South Wales, about reconfiguring policing in their areas to ensure that there is the capacity and resilience to provide protective services, including counter terrorism, to national standards. The Government's counter terrorism strategy is a nationwide effort to reduce the threat and our vulnerability to terrorism across the UK and involves a variety of...

Written Answers — Home Department: Metropolitan Police Commissioner (29 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: The Commissioner is responsible for the overall strategic direction and efficiency of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) across the range of the services that it delivers, including counter terrorism.

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Schedule 12 - Extradition (28 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...us with extradition. There are a whole range of issues that will help us to be more swift, effective and efficient in dealing with extradition—both in relation to serious and organised crime and terrorism—once the treaty has been ratified. There will be a modern, flexible definition of an extradition offence, which is archaic at the moment. Our relationships with these...

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 35 - Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences (28 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...is that it should be believed “likely to be so used”. That is a recklessness test, but a subjective one. If the hon. Member for Hornchurch cast his mind back to our recent debates on the Terrorism Bill, he will realise that we have a similar formulation. The test is similar, but it takes us a little further, so that people who believed that the article was likely to be used in...

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 35 - Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences (28 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, which has four strands—to prevent, pursue, prepare and protect. One of the most important areas is protecting the country’s essential national infrastructure. That relates not only to computer areas, although they are important, but to the various installations that provide the very fabric of...

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: New Clause 12 - Recording of encounters not governed by statutory powers (23 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...It is important to hold police officers to account for their actions. That is why we have a stop-and-search action team that works intensively, not just on encounters but on stop-and-search and on terrorism powers, to ensure that there is no disproportionality in the system. We also have an independent community panel, which works with the stop-and-search action team, again to ensure that...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (23 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...unless the offence is the commission of murder in which case the penalty is as for murder (life imprisonment). Under section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 (once it has been amended by the Terrorism Bill) it will be an offence to carry out certain acts preparatory to causing an explosion anywhere in the world. The preparatory acts must take place in the UK, a dependency or, in the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Number Plate Recognition (22 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...163;32.5 million in total) for the provision of ANPR technological development. This investment both addresses, and builds on, the success that ANPR has achieved in the fight against serious and organised crime, terrorism, volume crime and road traffic offending.

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 9 - Information gathering powers: extension to domestic flights and voyages (21 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...picture, so that they can not only respond to events when they have happened, but, if they have built up a picture, intervene. That might allow them sometimes to prevent serious crime and terrorism from taking place.

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 9 - Information gathering powers: extension to domestic flights and voyages (21 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...be the period; I do not have that detail at the moment. We need to ensure that we have the information in good time to enable us to track the kind of people that we want to be able to track. The Terrorism Act 2000 contains powers whereby examining police officers can request information relating to counter-terrorism powers at port or border areas, but they cannot obtain the same...

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 8 - Power to stop and search at aerodromes (21 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ..., but I am satisfied that they are making appropriate decisions to ensure that security is of the highest order at our airport facilities. These are important matters, particularly in the counter-terrorism context, so it is vital that airports are properly policed. A current review, by Stephen Boys Smith, is looking at funding for designated airports, because there can be disputes about...

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Schedule 2 - Amendments to the Police Act 1996 (21 Mar 2006)

Hazel Blears: ...way for local communities, and to try to increase the number of offences brought to justice, which everyone would recognise is important for public confidence. Our final   priority is to tackle terrorism. If any member of this Committee were to say that that was not a priority for this country, I would be surprised.