Results 1-20 of 260 for terrorism speaker:Charles Clarke

Written Answers — Home Department: O'Connor Report (4 May 2006)

Charles Clarke: Regional and national CT structures are already in place. The Association of Chief Police Officers' Committee on Terrorism and Allied Matters sets policy and strategic direction for counter-terrorism policing at a national level. Police counter-terrorist efforts are co-ordinated regionally and nationally through the regional intelligence cells, the work of the national co-ordinator of special...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Prevention of Terrorism Act (2 May 2006)

Charles Clarke: In accordance with section 14(3) and 14(5) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, Lord Carlile of Berriew QC prepared a report on the operation of the Act in 2005, which I laid before the House on 2 February 2006. I am grateful to Lord Carlile for his detailed report and I have given close consideration to his recommendations. Following consultation within my Department and with other...

Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal) (26 Apr 2006)

Charles Clarke: I agree with quite a lot of that. Since I have been Home Secretary I have tried to organise the Home Office into three essential pillars—the first dealing with policing and counter-terrorism, the second dealing with offender management and the issues about which we are talking, and the third dealing with immigration, asylum and identity—and to have a reform programme in each to...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Justice and Home Affairs Council (26 Apr 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...to regulate the handling of personal data within the fields of police and judicial co-operation. The aim of the proposal is to enhance the sharing of intelligence in the fight against crime and terrorism by providing common standards for the handling of data. The Government fully support the broad objectives of the proposal, but are working to ensure that the ultimate framework is not...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Control Order Judgment (24 Apr 2006)

Charles Clarke: The administrative court handed down its judgment on 12 April 2006 in the first review of a control order under section 3(10) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act). The court upheld the control order, but declared that the review procedure was incompatible with article 6 (Right to a Fair Hearing) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). I do not accept this...

Written Answers — Home Department: Proscribed Organisations (18 Apr 2006)

Charles Clarke: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was proscribed in March 2001 because the then Home Secretary decided that it met the criteria for proscription laid down in section three of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT) This decision was endorsed by Parliament. The list of proscribed organisations is kept under constant review. It is established policy not to comment further on any information or...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (27 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: The Government's counter terrorism strategy is a nationwide effort to reduce the threat of, and our vulnerability to, terrorism across the UK and involves a variety of Government Departments and agencies, particularly the Police Service, working in partnership with local and regional government and the private sector. Key elements of the strategy focus on the development of effective and...

Terrorism Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...encouragement" could be, they provide an exhaustive description. In other words, the offence is limited so that it is committed by making available to the public a statement directly encouraging terrorism, or a statement indirectly encouraging it but only by actually describing it in such a way that the listener will infer that he should emulate it. To put that simply, the use of the word...

Terrorism Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...to the issue of glorification, if we were now to remove it from the Bill the courts would be fully justified in reaching one obvious conclusion—that Parliament did not intend glorification of terrorism to fall within the scope of the encouragement offence. If any hon. Members doubt that, they might like to read a judgment given by the Lords of Appeal only last week. In the course of...

Terrorism Bill (16 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: No, not at the moment. The reason the Government believe that we need to deal with glorification in our law is clear. People who glorify terrorism help to create a climate in which terrorism is regarded as acceptable. They help to persuade impressionable members of their audiences that they have a moral duty to kill innocent people in pursuit of whatever ideology they have espoused. In recent...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Control Order Powers (13 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: Section 14(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) requires me to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on my exercise of the control order powers during that period. The 2005 Act came into force on 11 March 2005, and was renewed by affirmative resolution in both Houses of Parliament on 15 February 2006....

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (10 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: I announced, via a written ministerial statement to the House on 25 January 2006, Official Report, column 57WS, additional counter-terrorism funding for the police service. Additional police specific counter-terrorism funding is set out in the table. £ million 2006–07 2007–08 Resource Metropolitan Police 30 45 Local and Regional Policing outside of...

Written Answers — Home Department: Mi5 (7 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...to be split over the three years 2005–08 was announced on 25 January 2006, (Hansard Cm 57–58 WS) to ensure early delivery of increased capacity to counter the threat from international terrorism in the light of the July bombings in London. £ million Financial year Resource Capital 2002–03 940 121.8 2003–04 1060.4 509.9 2004–05 1156.8...

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill that is being considered in the other place. This power will greatly enhance the ability of the police to investigate serious organised crime and even terrorism.

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...to the opportunities and challenges that the service will face over five or 10 years. We must recognise that in an increasingly interdependent world, work with international partners to tackle terrorism and serious organised crime will be increasingly important. We have therefore included a number of measures to strengthen policing at international level. Computer misuse—the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Legislation (27 Feb 2006)

Charles Clarke: Statistics on the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974 from 1979 to 2001 are available on the Research and Statistics section of the Home Office website. Statistics on the number of arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the outcomes of those arrests, from 11 September 2001, are also available on the Home Office website. Figures for the number of people arrested more than once...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (15 Feb 2006)

Charles Clarke: The hon. Gentleman has conceded that his own position is ridiculous. Any celebration of the Easter rising by the Taoiseach would not be done with intent to incite others to commit acts of terrorism or even with subjective recklessness. The Government's wording requires the statement to be one "from which . . . members of the public could reasonably be expected to infer that what is being...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (15 Feb 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...have given the first of three reasons why the Lords amendments should be rejected. Secondly, it is perfectly clear that people who seek to recruit terrorists do so not just by directly encouraging terrorism or by provoking people to commit violent acts but by glorifying terrorism and terrorists. They may emphasise that terrorists are heroes whose actions should be copied; that terrorists...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (15 Feb 2006)

Charles Clarke: ...undermine both the legal effectiveness of the offence and its effectiveness as a deterrent, in a climate where we need to understand that individuals and organisations that promote and glorify terrorism are looking at our decisions and deciding how best to conduct themselves. Taken together, the three major reasons that I have outlined mean that we must not agree to the Lords amendments,...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (15 Feb 2006)

Charles Clarke: I shall deal with that point in more detail later, but my hon. Friend is entirely correct, without qualification, to say that we have to deal with the glorification of terror. If anything was needed to demonstrate that, it was the events of 7 July last year and how they happened. That is what the legislation is designed to do.