Results 1-20 of 58 for terrorism speaker:Crispin Blunt

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: In 2007, the Government announced an increase of more than £100 million on Prevent and another £240 million on counter-terrorism policing, among an overall counter-terrorist, security and intelligence expenditure of £3.5 billion, which has rapidly increased. What are the Government doing to review the effectiveness of all that expenditure, as well as the Prevent programmes,...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 51 (16 Jun 2009)

Crispin Blunt: I have responsibilities for security and counter-terrorism in our home affairs team, which is why I am leading on the subject for the Opposition. I may have to apologise, Sir Nicholas, for the fact that my arguments are not cast in the emollient manner shown by my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford. It is difficult to share that manner, given the pasting that the Government’s arguments...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 51 (16 Jun 2009)

Crispin Blunt: ...in Northern Ireland two days before Report in another place. The figure of 8,000 was introduced at a rather late stage. Lord West referred to “examples of people of international counter-terrorism interest”. What does that mean? The Government have to make a better case for making substantial changes in this area than a statement as bland and as undetailed as that. Lord West...

Business of the House: Defence in the World (4 Jun 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...from Pakistan's weapons of mass destruction, the size of its population, and the size of the British Pakistani population—given that I am shadow Minister with responsibility for counter-terrorism, I am only too aware of the domestic issues in that regard—mean that Pakistan is much more important than Afghanistan, but they are very much linked. On Afghanistan, I want to...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Electronic Communications (20 May 2009)

Crispin Blunt: ...of the Tamil demonstration. Although I understand that decisions about the conduct of public order are an operational matter for the police, the message being sent out about our tolerance of terrorism is a wider policy matter of importance to us all. I would invite you, as a matter of urgency, to communicate to the relevant authorities the view that the unimpeded and open support of a...

Employment Retention: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (3 Mar 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...Parliament to ask for a renewal of authority for these orders, and those of us who were here in the previous Parliament are unlikely to forget the circumstances of the passing of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, from which these orders spring. The requirement for these measures was exceptional and was a response to an inconvenient judicial ruling striking down part 4 of the...

Employment Retention: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (3 Mar 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...have held the Government's feet to the fire, to force progress on the other measures that would end the need for this legislation. Control orders replaced detention for foreigners suspected of terrorism who could not be convicted because the evidence could not be admitted in court and could not be deported because of concerns about their fate on their return home. Two principal methods can...

Employment Retention: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (3 Mar 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...occasions that these orders were renewed. In 2007, my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer), who is now proving such a distinguished chairman of the Home Affairs Committee's counter-terrorism sub-committee, first of all critiqued the effectiveness of the regime, and supported the extension with great reluctance. But he warned the Government that they could not expect our...

Employment Retention: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (3 Mar 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...or the costs of the control order review group. The current arrangement is costing well over £200,000 a year per controlee. Control orders should be assessed in the context of the whole counter-terrorism strategy, as well as in the context of the financial cost. I believe that they do damage to the "prevent" element of the strategy because of the message of oppression that they impart...

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-Terrorism Control Orders (2 Mar 2009)

Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) the independent reviewer pursuant to section 14 (3) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, (b) the control order review group, (c) the permanent team dedicated to control orders, (d) the special advocates, (e) supervision arrangements made under control orders and (f) the legal...

Business of the House: Records of Detention (Review Conclusions) (26 Feb 2009) has video

Crispin Blunt: ...the conduct of American forces has significantly improved since Ben Griffin served in Iraq, but the country is owed an account of what happened. Nothing does more to undermine our fight against terrorism and violence than departing from the rule of law and the values that we seek to defend. That does the terrorists' work for them. Is that not further cause for the Government finally to set...

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Control Orders (12 Feb 2009)

Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the individuals subject to the 15 control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 on 15 December 2008 had been subject to the provisions of one or more control orders for (a) under six months, (b) between six and 12 months, (c) between 12 months and two years, (d) between two and three years and (e) over three years.

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Further written evidence to be reported to the House (6 May 2008)

Crispin Blunt: ...’s answer was: “I will stretch to something like 12, but where would you get to, Bob?” Bob Quick replied: “I am still being briefed on the very complex history to fighting terrorism, but my understanding is in the order of about 15 occasions.”——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 15.] That ended up splashed...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (24 Apr 2008)

Crispin Blunt: ...s background, should not be undermined or removed unless you can show that that is necessary, not just that it might be desirable at some future stage.”——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 67, Q176.]

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (24 Apr 2008)

Crispin Blunt: ...view, which is derived from our operational experience, on whether 28 days is sufficient and is likely to remain so, and our conclusion is that it is.”——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 53, Q136.]

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (24 Apr 2008)

Crispin Blunt: ...importance that that has taken on, and the fact that you have made it clear in your evidence that that change is only one small part of a vast raft of measures that you are taking to address terrorism, I am at a loss to understand why the Government are so firmly stuck on this position, when it is not required at the moment. If it is required, you will have to come to Parliament anyway,...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Written evidence to be reported to the House (22 Apr 2008)

Crispin Blunt: I understand that we are entitled to believe that you would have resigned as Attorney-General had the House of Commons not voted against 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006 and that should the Bill come to your House in its present form you would vote against the 42-days provision. What is your assessment of the chances of this Bill, if it arrived in its current form, surviving in the House of...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (22 Apr 2008)

Crispin Blunt: ..., particularly the increase from 28 days to 42 days for detention without charge. She has particular experience relating to Northern Ireland as well as in dealing with the emerging threat from Islamic terrorism in the 1990s. She has an impeccable professional reputation and would make a fine witness if the Committee were inclined to agree to the amendment. I am as much concerned about the...

Points of Order: Police Grant (4 Feb 2008)

Crispin Blunt: I rise to debate some of the details of the police grant, with particular reference to Surrey. I am delighted that the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing is back in his place, and I am pleased that he acknowledged in his opening remarks that there is a particular problem to do with Surrey police funding. First, let me give some context. Surrey is supplying £5.4...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Crime Bill [Lords]: Clause 34 (3 Jul 2007)

Crispin Blunt: ...is the higher, criminal one? Serious potential offences might justify a lower standard of proof because of the threat that they present to society. That is where I understand us to be at the moment. Terrorism prevention orders are assessed on the balance of probabilities, whereas, under the McCann judgment, antisocial behaviour orders require a higher standard of proof. I ask the Minister...