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Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (9 Jul 2009) has video

David Davis: I apologise for intervening when I have only just come into the Chamber, but an even more relevant example is Australia, where the head of counter-terrorism has stated in terms that those who do not use intercept evidence in court are not being serious about counter-terrorism.

Government Policy (Torture Overseas) (7 Jul 2009)

David Davis: I thank the Minister for his earlier comments about my non-partisan approach to dealing with terrorism—it is the standard. I cannot give him the evidence behind these cases, for the reasons that I gave earlier; I can simply say to him that I am confident of the facts. He does not wish to comment on the detail, but may I bring him back to a general point? One of the things that the Prime...

Government Policy (Torture Overseas) (7 Jul 2009)

David Davis: Four years ago today, this country suffered a terrible atrocity at the hands of terrorists: 52 people were killed and many more horribly injured. I stood at the Dispatch Box that day and spoke of the need to face down this barbarism. In the subsequent weeks and months, I was proud of the calm and just way that the ordinary British citizen dealt with this assault and of the comparative absence...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

David Davis: ...truth is, of course, that the then Home Secretary said that identity cards would not have prevented the outcome, but the Prime Minister subsequently said that they would be a help in defeating terrorism. The Home Secretary has to deal with that. Let me bring him back to the issue of improving the security of our identities. His Government have had the misfortune to lose the records,...

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

David Davis: If we looked at this issue solely from the point of view of effectiveness against terrorism, it would fail the test. It is no good solving a single problem if that solution creates 100 further problems. A number of hon. Members have made the point that this works to exacerbate radicalisation. It is worth considering the size of the problem. When Lady Manningham-Buller made her last speech on...

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

David Davis: ...remaining problem. This is an unnecessary piece of law, and a bad piece of law. It does huge damage to the Government's "prevent strategy", and I suspect that, if anything, it makes the threat from terrorism worse.

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

David Davis: When I spoke to the head of counter-terrorism at the Department of Justice in the United States, he said that every organised crime prosecution and the vast majority—all bar one or two—of the terrorism prosecutions there require intercept evidence. He made the point that, if intercept strategy is designed to deliver evidence, a lot of evidence is obtained. That clearly does not...

Written Answers — Home Department: Proceeds of Crime: Terrorism (19 Jan 2009)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been collected relating to the suspected financing of terrorism through the suspicious activity reports regime since its creation.

Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

David Davis: ...deferred. A third has been made necessary by this morning's judgment by the European Court of Human Rights. During the course of this year, we have had serious intellectual battles over the counter-terrorism strategy. Much of that has been about freedom and individual rights, but a good deal has also been about how successful the strategy is, and how successful it needs to be. The...

Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

David Davis: ...copy number techniques shows that it is anything but that. However, put in front of a jury, the technology has a power much greater than it deserves. I do not want us to build an anti-crime or anti-terrorism strategy on that technology-plus-database approach. I will finish by saying that many of these issues will not necessarily be for dispute unless the Government want to pick a fight yet...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Detainees (26 Nov 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people suspected of offences under anti-terrorism legislation were held for more than 14 days before being charged in the last three years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Arrests (17 Nov 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many days after arrest the evidence used to prosecute was available for all people convicted of offences under anti-terrorism legislation, who were held for more than 14 days before charge in the last three years.

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

David Davis: I am glad that I gave way to the hon. Lady. There is nobody in the House—not one person—who does not feel horror at the loss of life or the pain and mutilation suffered by the victims of terrorism. But two wrongs do not make a right, least of all if what we do is ineffective, unnecessary or even counter-productive, as the hon. Lady has just pointed out. I have no sympathy whatever...

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

David Davis: The hon. Gentleman raises a perfectly reasonable point. I am not surprised that he does so, because the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing has attempted on several occasions to misrepresent this point of view. I have said that the CPS did not act recklessly. There are issues that police forces and prosecutors have to decide on in every case. If they have 20 or more...

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

David Davis: ...8212;the reasonable suspicion test. The other circumstance is where there are a vast number of attacks on the state at the same time. The Security Minister—the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing—referred to it as the three 9/11s test. Under those circumstances, we would be overwhelmed, and we would need a definition of a state of emergency. This is...

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

David Davis: ...the current 28-day limit were "up against the buffers". That is the claim being made: not that we might be, but that we are up against the buffers. He based his judgment on the most complex counter-terrorism investigation in our history, Operation Overt, in respect of the alleged plot to blow 10 airliners out of the sky at Heathrow in August 2006. In that case, five people were held for 27...

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

David Davis: ...it rightly looked to gather as much evidence as possible under the rules that it is given by this House within the time frame that Parliament sets it. However, it does show that in the most complex terrorism investigation in our history, all the evidence on the only two suspects charged after 21 days was in the possession of the police within four and 12 days respectively. I suspect that...

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

David Davis: .... In his evidence to Parliament, the commissioner said explicitly: "We have never put forward a case that there is evidence of a need for an extension". ——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 11, Q3.] He based his support for 42 days on "a pragmatic inference" based on trends in a number of plots and on those plots' complexity. In...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Internet (2 Jun 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been convicted for terrorism offences specifically involving the internet in the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (21 May 2008)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of staff in her Department work on the (a) Pursue, (b) Protect and (c) Prepare strands of the Contest counter-terrorism strategy.