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Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009)

Andrew Dismore: My main concern throughout this long-running debate, going right back to the counter-terrorism legislation, has been whether we will have an article 2-compliant process. I am still not entirely convinced—even with the Lords amendment and, indeed, amendment (a) from the Opposition Front-Bench team—that we will end up with an article 2-compliant process. However, I shall not go into...

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

Andrew Dismore: ...the tagged report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Select Committee starts with the premise, as it always does, that human rights law imposes a duty on the state to protect us all from terrorism, and it is on that point that today's debate must focus. The 28-day provision was supposed to be a temporary measure, but this is the third annual renewal debate since it was...

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

Andrew Dismore: ...released earlier, and whether those charged could have been charged earlier, on the threshold test. We simply do not know the basis of those charges. The Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism has made much of the safeguards available through judicial hearing and oversight. We have grave reservations about that, however. A person who has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism...

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

Andrew Dismore: ...;individual or community—has been made available to Parliament. The Government acknowledge in their reply to our queries their commitment to undertake a review of the impact of all counter-terrorism legislation on our communities, but they now envisage publishing a research report by late November 2009. However, the psychological impact of extended pre-charge detention on individuals...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Bill of Rights (UK) (25 Jun 2009)

Andrew Dismore: ...be a matter a time before we are caught by them anyway, and would have to change our law? The best example of that—it is one of the hard cases—is to do with the removal of undesirable terror suspects, which has been a long-standing issue before the European Court of Human Rights. I think it was a Dutch case where we were interveners. Or are they simply saying, "We do not want...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: International Terrorism (24 Mar 2009) has video

Andrew Dismore: May I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to operating within the framework of human rights, which of course imposes positive obligations on the state to protect us from the consequences of terrorism? May I also particularly welcome her commitment to complete opposition to the use of torture? Does she agree that we have to make sure that our agents overseas, who are operating in one or...

Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth (24 Mar 2009)

Andrew Dismore: ...-determination, whatever happens, because even if the LTTE is defeated in the traditional military way as part of this campaign it will not go away; it will simply revert to traditional forms of terrorism and we will see more bombings and assassinations, regrettable though that may be, throughout Sri Lanka and possibly further afield. That is no answer. There is no military solution to...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Hezbollah (23 Mar 2009)

Andrew Dismore: ...of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the extent of co-operation between the political and military wings of Hezbollah in seeking to commit or support acts of terrorism.

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

Andrew Dismore: I rise to speak to my Committee's report—the 14th to be published in this Parliament on counter-terrorism policy. Like every other report, we begin by agreeing with the Government on the importance of the obligations imposed on them by human rights law to take effective steps to protect the public from the real threat of terrorism. However, we have consistently raised a number of human...

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

Andrew Dismore: .... As we now know from the Belmarsh cases and others, a control order can mean seven years, which, with proper remission taken into account, is equivalent to a 14-year prison sentence, yet not many terrorism offences carry that weight of penalty. We should bear that in mind. Much has been said about intercept. It is a year since the Chilcot inquiry reported and the Prime Minister has given...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Human Trafficking Convention (3 Feb 2009)

Andrew Dismore: ...of accommodation. The Joint Committee received a note from the Home Office, in reply to inquiries that we made following a session last autumn with my hon. Friend the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing, saying that the Government are seeking to grant-fund 55 intensive crisis refuge places for victims in England and Wales. However, that will not begin until the...

Coroners and Justice Bill (26 Jan 2009) has video

Andrew Dismore: ...inquests have already been dealt with in the debate. My main concern is secret inquests, and the House will know that I tabled a series of amendments when the issue arose regarding the Counter-Terrorism Bill, ultimately leading to the Government withdrawing their proposals. Now, those proposals have returned with relatively little modification. The starting point must be article 2 of the...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Andrew Dismore: ...a ceasefire with Hamas. When that ended six months later, in December last year, imperfect though it was, Israel wanted to renew it. This was despite the fact that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups used the ceasefire to fire more than 400 rockets at Israel, to build more illegal tunnels, to rearm with smuggled Iranian weapons and to train their fighters for future terrorist...

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Human Rights (18 Dec 2008)

Andrew Dismore: .... The problem, however, was that the language has somehow become legitimised as extreme rhetoric, and is now often widely accepted in mainstream attacks on Israel. Durban began a trend to exclude terrorism against Israel and anti-Semitism from the entire global human rights agenda. In April 2009, a Durban review conference will be held in Geneva. The final conference will produce a...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: India: Terrorism (23 Oct 2008)

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what support the Government is providing to India to assist counter-terrorism activities in India; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: India: Terrorism (23 Oct 2008)

Andrew Dismore: ...of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what mechanisms are in place for co-operation with the Indian Government on intelligence relating to (a) the causes of and (b) the perpetrators of terrorism in India.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: India: Terrorism (22 Oct 2008)

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Indian Government on terrorism (a) in India and (b) internationally; and if he will make a statement.

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Andrew Dismore: ..., to help to fund terrorist attacks. That should not come as a surprise to any of us, because that is the nature of terrorist organisations, whether in relation to the PKK, the LTTE or the Irish terrorism that we saw in the 1970s. People went around rattling the tins for the prisoners or whoever it happened to be, but we all knew where it was going to end up. As we have proscribed Hamas in...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Clause 3 — Applications (8 Jul 2008) has video

Andrew Dismore: ...the JCHR on several occasions, both formally and informally, and one of their main concerns is what they call "mission creep" in terms of how the system of special advocates has spread from counter-terrorism. That is why I have used the term "independent counsel", which I believe is drawn from the New Zealand system. The new clause is intended to codify the inherent jurisdiction that...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill (8 Jul 2008) has video

Andrew Dismore: ...not been one anonymity case in a magistrates court, and only one in the juvenile courts. It has been suggested that magistrates courts should be excluded, but the fact remains that under counter-terrorism laws, some cases are triable either way, so it is dangerous to suggest that magistrates courts should be entirely excluded. As for the relevant considerations, the Government have tabled...