Results 1-20 of 20 for terrorism speaker:George Howarth

Bill Presented: Intelligence and Security Committee (17 Jul 2008) has video

George Howarth: ...because we are more behind closed doors than our equivalents in other parts of the world. I had intended to say a lot more, but time forbids. I also want to address briefly the review of counter-terrorism strategy; our report refers to that from page 27. I am thinking particularly of the Contest strategy, and, within that, the Prevent strand. One of the great lessons that we learned from...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Jul 2007)

George Howarth: Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in order to tackle terrorism, we need the Muslim community to provide strong leadership from within that community? Does he also agree that the experience of Northern Ireland bears out very strongly his belief that we need a bipartisan approach if we are to succeed in resolving these problems?

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Counter-terrorism (2 Jul 2007)

George Howarth: ...awesome responsibilities and congratulate her on the calm and effective way in which she has carried them out over the past few days. I also welcome the fact that she continues to review counter-terrorism legislation. May I express the hope that should it prove necessary to extend the time for which a suspect may be held for questioning, she will bring measures forward without any hesitation?

Business of the House: London Bombings (11 May 2006)

George Howarth: Will my right hon. Friend accept that no restrictions were placed on the access of the Intelligence and Security Committee to information, whether in the form of reports from the joint terrorism analysis centre or the Joint Intelligence Committee? That was also true of access to the heads of the agencies. It is a little unfortunate that, although the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

George Howarth: ...believe that the time is now right for their introduction. The world has changed enormously since that time. We have seen huge changes in mass migration around the world, and the rise of Islamist terrorism. The events of 9/11 constituted the worst example of that terrorism, and last summer's London bombings the most recent. That is why people feel that the time is right to introduce...

Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) (8 Feb 2006)

George Howarth: ...other Democratic Unionist party Members at the atrocities, whether they were committed by loyalists or republicans, but my point is that many individuals have made the intellectual transition from terrorism to democratic politics. However, I am not convinced that they have has exercised sufficient authority sufficiently far down the chain to ensure that everybody who has been involved, and...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr George Howarth: ...in my constituency, as elsewhere, about Iraq, we are as conscious and anxious as everybody else about the security threats that we face in the modern world. We know that one grievance that fuels terrorism is the fate of the Palestinians in the middle east. My constituents will fully support my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary in their efforts to work with...

G8 Summit (14 Jun 2004)

Mr George Howarth: I thank my right hon. Friend for the positive tone of his report of the G8 summit. Does he agree that terrorism masked as religious zealotry, whether in the middle east or elsewhere, or thinly veiled xenophobia here or elsewhere in Europe will, far from providing solutions to many of these problems, combine to create further problems?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (24 Mar 2004)

Mr George Howarth: ...agree that most people find it difficult to understand what is objectionable about having to prove that they are who they say they are? Given the problems that we have with organised crime and terrorism, is it not time for us to have an identity card scheme, so that many Conservative Members will be able to prove that they are who they say they are?

Mersey Tunnels Bill: Schedule 1 — Amendment of the 1980 Act: Levying, Revision and Application of Tolls (29 Oct 2003)

Mr George Howarth: ...might be, but any civil engineering project could go wrong. The circumstances might not be within the control of those responsible for managing the project; for example, there could be an act of terrorism or some engineering fault that was not originally evident. There must be some way of dealing with such eventualities. The promoters have sensibly taken the view that the old arrangement,...

Public Bill Committee: Extradition Bill: Clause 1 - Extradition to category 1 territories (7 Jan 2003)

Mr George Howarth: ...he has had to time to read the Library research paper. I refer him to the comments of Lord Diplock in the case that I quoted earlier. Does he not feel that restricting the provisions purely to terrorism would render them inoperable?

Public Bill Committee: Extradition Bill: Clause 1 - Extradition to category 1 territories (7 Jan 2003)

Mr George Howarth: ...makes the offence one of a political character. Political motives on the part of the offender do not make an offence one 'of a political character'.'' If we followed the Opposition's proposals, terrorism would be the sole offence that could be considered—my hon. Friend has argued against that anyway—and it would be almost impossible for any terrorist-related offence to be...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: International Terrorism (5 Nov 2002)

Mr George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the state of the international coalition against terrorism.

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr George Howarth: ...of their own problems. I am not talking about a quid pro quo situation, with Russia getting something that it wants in return for supporting action in Iraq. However, Russia has concerns about terrorism in Chechnya, its developing role in NATO and its continuing and growing relationship with the European Union, particularly in the light of enlargement. I believe that greater regard needs to...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill (17 Dec 2001)

Mr George Howarth: ...are evidence that it has, indeed, become a "cold house". I accept that people such as Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Mitchell Mcloughlin and many others have made the psychological adjustment from terrorism to politics, but the activities of the IRA have not necessarily always followed that course. That is all the more regrettable because I believe that, certainly in the case of Martin...

Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill: Clause 1 (30 Nov 2000)

Mr George Howarth: ...Friday agreement set in train arrangements between Ireland and ourselves and for the different legislatures in the United Kingdom. The principle behind them was to move beyond the phase in which terrorism sadly scarred relationships in Northern Ireland and, on many occasions, in England and elsewhere. We are concerned with moving beyond that phase into a set of relationships with which...

Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill: Clause 1 (30 Nov 2000)

Mr George Howarth: My point is that the purpose behind the Good Friday agreement with which, I think, we all agree, is that individuals in the parties that were associated in the past with terrorism should repudiate terrorism. We want to judge them by their actions. Quite honestly, as the hon. Gentleman knows only too well, if someone with a background in a terrorist organisation took up his seat, he would have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: British-Irish Council (21 Jun 2000)

Mr George Howarth: ...operation between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on policing. We take those opportunities seriously. We also recognise that it creates a better environment in which to police not only terrorism but some of the problems associated with smuggling across the border.

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Executive (12 Apr 2000)

Mr George Howarth: ...going whereby everyone—including those who are in the Unionist party, who have to make very difficult decisions—is absolutely clear that we are in a phase of politics, not a phase of terrorism. I hope that we can achieve that. If there is anything that I or the right hon. Gentleman can do, we should set out on that path.

Drancy Concentration Camp (15 Feb 1993)

Mr George Howarth: ...half-smile arrived armed with a small team of four permanent assistants, fellow Austrians belonging to the Sicherheitsdienst, the Security Service. Together they would introduce an unprecedented reign of terror and tyranny, making life at the camp still more intolerable. Brunner had already decided that to carry out Eichmann's brief properly, full and effective personal control of Drancy...