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Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 11 (24 Feb 2009)

James Gray: ...choose not to accept our amendments, I hope that people who are concerned about the illiberal nature of the clause will vote against it at stand part, as happened during the passage of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, when there was a significant rebellion in the House. Only when it became apparent that the other place would remove the clauses were they were deleted by the Government, and I...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

James Gray: ...Gaza and the Palestinians, but, although we had an awful time in Iraq, that is now dealt with. It's over and finished." That strikes me as a fundamental mistake. There are still huge elements of terrorism in Iraq: at this moment, terrorist networks of all kinds are developing and growing there. The country remains one of the conduits through which a large part of the drugs trade enters the...

Afghanistan (29 Oct 2008)

James Gray: ...would be nobody to "insurge" against. There has to be an invasion force to have an insurgency against, so I doubt very much whether counter-insurgency works as a justification. What about counter-terrorism? Of course, that was the 9/11 justification.

Afghanistan (29 Oct 2008)

James Gray: ..." against by the awful Taliban is, frankly, nonsense. Afghanistan does not work that way. I do not necessarily believe that there is really a counter-insurgency role for us in Afghanistan. Counter-terrorism is a possible justification, but it is well accepted by everybody that most of the al-Qaeda forces have withdrawn from Afghanistan and are now in the tribal areas in north-west...

Business of the House: Defence in the UK (9 Oct 2008) has video

James Gray: ...do this—is carefully examine precisely what it is that we are doing around the world and why we are doing it. We have not done that on Afghanistan, for example. We do not know whether the mission is counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency or counter-narcotics. We do not know whether we are setting up a Guildford look-alike western-style democracy or whether we are simply helping...

Bill Presented: Armed Forces Personnel (6 Jul 2006)

James Gray: ...armed forces would carry out those tasks, the number of servicemen available—from memory, it is 185,000 in the three services—would be too small. If we are to undertake the war against terror alongside the United States, the world's policing and the homeland defence tasks that face us now, any sensible and dispassionate observer will say, "The number is too small." The elastic...

Point of Order: Defence Policy (22 Jun 2006)

James Gray: ...Darfur, and international law provides scant justification for that approach. The Pentagon has justified what is happening in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by saying that a war is being fought against terrorism, but our defence policy is different. We say that we do not want to engage in warfare against terrorists, and that we want to prevent asymmetric attacks being levelled against us....

Written Answers — Home Department: Passports (3 Mar 2006)

James Gray: ...Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the possible link between UK passports lost in the post and (a) identity theft, (b) human trafficking and (c) international terrorism; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (27 Feb 2006)

James Gray: In reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Anne Milton) a moment ago, the Secretary of State described the tasks faced by our troops as establishing democracy, ending terrorism, achieving security in the south of Afghanistan, helping the economy of Afghanistan and dealing with poppy destruction. Will he now tell us how he will judge when each of those tasks has been completed, how...

Written Answers — Home Department: Countryside Alliance Protests (Parliament Square) (15 Dec 2005)

James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts during investigations of offences alleged to have been committed at, immediately after, or in connection with the Countryside Alliance protests in Parliament Square on 15 September 2004.

Written Answers — Home Department: Countryside Alliance Protests (1 Dec 2005)

James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act during the Countryside Alliance protests in Parliament Square on 15 September 2004.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Bill (23 Nov 2005)

James Gray: ...and (b) after 26 October on which (i) the chief constable and (ii) other senior police officers of Wiltshire Constabulary contacted hon. Members representing constituencies in Wiltshire about the Terrorism Bill; and what form that contact took.

Defence in the United Kingdom (17 Nov 2005)

James Gray: ....] I should point out, incidentally, in response to a sedentary observation from the Liberal Democrat Benches, that many people would have liked Saddam Hussein to be shot. How do we fight terrorism? Terrorism is a many-headed Hydra: taking out a terrorist carries the risk that 10,000 more will be created. Sorting out international terrorism is a much more complicated business than our...

Emergency Services (Regionalisation) (12 Oct 2005)

James Gray: ...by my predecessor, Mr. Peel. What do we have now? We are talking about doing away with the excellent Wiltshire police service because the service is apparently not big enough to cover anti-terrorism and all the other matters that the Minister mentioned. Surely we can get around that problem. Four officers in the Wiltshire police service deal with anti-terrorism. Surely they could happily...

Defence Policy (16 Oct 2003)

Mr James Gray: ...much of what the Secretary of State said. As he rightly observed, the nature of warfare moves forward all the time and all kinds of new challenges lie ahead. Asymmetrical warfare and dealing with terrorism, for instance, demand a different approach from what was required of us during the cold war. Incidentally, the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan—who I fear has now left the...

Terrorism (7 Mar 2002)

Mr James Gray: I begin by paying tribute to what the men and women of our armed services have done in the war against terrorism. They have carried out their roles well and we have perhaps not praised them enough. My hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) speaks from experience. He reminded us that everyone will be thinking of the troops in action at Gardez, and we offer our profound sympathies...

Terrorism (7 Mar 2002)

Mr James Gray: ..."is squaring up for a battle with . . . the Defence Secretary." The article says that the Chancellor "is deeply sceptical about MoD demands for extra funds to meet the new threat of international terrorism". The Minister says that the report is inaccurate, so he must tell us where it came from and assure us that the Chancellor is as enthusiastic as he is to spend the money necessary to win...

Written Answers — Scotland: Scottish Regiments (4 Dec 2001)

Mr James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when she last met the Secretary of State for Defence to discuss plans for the future involvement of Scottish regiments in combating terrorism; and if she will make a statement.

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (16 Mar 1999)

Mr James Gray: Will the Home Secretary take this opportunity to feel the slightest twinge of embarrassment at the fact that, from 1983 to 1995, the Labour party consistently opposed renewal of the prevention of terrorism Act? Will he apologise to the nation for getting it wrong for 12 years? His remarks tonight make it quite clear that we were right to renew the Act on every occasion.