Results 1-12 of 12 for terrorism speaker:David Curry

Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Commencement (5 Mar 2008) has video

David Curry: ...Union needs no more treaty making within the foreseeable future, because there are other pressing agendas such as climate change, migration and asylum, which will flow largely from climate change, terrorism, competition and the protection of the role of developing countries in a global economy. Nothing assures us that the European Union will deal with such agendas, but the treaty gives it...

Orders of the Day: European Union (Amendment) Bill (21 Jan 2008) has video

David Curry: ...give us a better chance of dealing with the new agendas that are pressing upon us, which have constantly been repeated in the debate—climate change, population movement, competitiveness and terrorism. They do not guarantee it—that is a question of political will—but institutionally, they make us better able to respond positively if member states can summon up the will....

Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill (7 Nov 2005)

David Curry: .... We have backed away from a sensible outcome for public sector pensions. We have backed away on local government funding. I just hope that the Government back away from their proposals on terrorism, the one thing that they should back away from, but we see that the Prime Minister intends to remain obdurate. The Bill is silly. It will not get anybody out of a mess. The Government have...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr David Curry: ...know, all the parties are niggling about whether there should be special provision in terms of council tax for people who have reached a certain age. My father is 87, and his capacity to commit acts of terror is somewhat limited now; indeed, his capacity to get downstairs unaided is fairly limited. Is it seriously intended that people of, for example, 80 and over will be required to have...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 8 - Issue etc. of ID cards (25 Jan 2005)

Mr David Curry: I am certainly not, and I would not dream of mentioning that what my hon. Friend the Member for Solihull said would strike terror into the heart of my 87-year-old father when he buys his next Volkswagen Polo. You are very wise, Mr. Conway, to direct me not to trespass down that route. However, it is true that the Government have the discretion to exempt people from the requirement to...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (18 Jan 2005)

Mr David Curry: So are the registrable facts that are used for combating terrorism merely the ones that I offer to put forward? That is what the Minister said a while ago. Is it up to the individual to decide and choose what they put forward?

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

Mr David Curry: ...all. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) explained, we have seen a curious accumulation of the purposes of the Bill, and if one of the card's purposes is to combat terrorism, it is difficult to explain why it should be treated rather like my driving licence. With that, if I commit an offence, I can produce the licence at a police station of my choice...

Brussels European Council (20 Dec 2004)

Mr David Curry: In the long-term battle to combat the causes and circumstances that lead to terrorism, is not the opening of negotiations with Turkey likely to be much more important than the invasion of Iraq, because it demonstrates the importance of the soft power that the Europeans are good at, alongside hard military power? Will the Prime Minister perhaps persuade President Bush to recognise the...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr David Curry: ...Iraqi regime, I believe that there must be special reasons for embarking on a pre-emptive war. Of course there is a generic threat to the UK from the existence of weapons that lend themselves to terrorism. That is the reason that President Bush used in his broadcast much earlier today, but it has not been demonstrated that there is a specific threat to the UK. The Prime Minister says that...

Iraq (13 Feb 2003)

Mr David Curry: What evaluation have the Government made of the latest so-called bin Laden tape? The United States has leapt upon it as proof positive of a link between terrorism and Iraq, but the Foreign Secretary has not even mentioned it today. The British Government seem to be much more circumspect in making this link. Does the right hon. Gentleman believe that there is a substantive link between...

World Poverty (19 Jun 2002)

Mr David Curry: ...the alleviation of poverty, on mechanisms for international justice, on steel and then on the Farm Bill. There is a serious concern that, when we all accept the need for collective action to combat terrorism, such action should spread more widely throughout what we call the international community. I said that the American action would promote protectionism, so step forward, right stage,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EC (Single Market) (2 Mar 1988)

Mr David Curry: Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the debate on the internal market does not become sidetracked by repetitive remarks about VAT, terrorism and all the byways of Europe, but concentrates on the essential task of creating a single industrial market place, which would be overwhelmingly in the interests of Britain?