Results 1-20 of 75 for terrorism speaker:Beverley Hughes

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Community Relations (13 Jan 2009)

Beverley Hughes: ...West: Thursday 26 February 2009 South West: Saturday 21 March 2009 The purpose behind these conferences is to provide safe places for young people from diverse communities to meet and discuss terrorism and extremism around four key themes: Terrorism and what it means to young people Violent Extremism and what it means to young people Youth Leadership How the police should work with young...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...glad to have heard such fine contributions from all parts of the Chamber today. The Committee's evident commitment to the issue is visible and powerful. Clearly, the Government take the threat from terrorism very seriously indeed, as I am sure do Members from across the House. Protecting the public and our national security is probably our most important duty. Recent international...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...that members of the Committee will clearly understand that. Our programme needs to capture those differences. We are addressing that issue through a Home Office-led cross-government civil counter-terrorism research programme, which aims systematically to identify, prioritise and fill gaps in civil counter-terrorism research. In a way, I alluded to that when I outlined our approach. The...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ..., social services, job creation, youth offending and so on. It is not feasible to put in a single Department everything related to the expertise and activity that need to be deployed for counter-terrorism purposes. As all Departments have their own core business, such an approach runs the risk of allowing Departments to leave things to someone else. The main point is that there is a...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...earlier by the hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink). I hope that these comments will reassure hon. Members. The policy and strategy have several strands. There is a clear strategy for counter-terrorism. The capability programme is about minimising the damage from any attack and maximising our resilience. Within that programme is the CBRN programme, on which I report to the Home...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...-government civil research programme will facilitate a more focused dialogue with research councils and industry because, as I said, what has come out of it is a clear prioritised list of counter-terrorism research requirements. We will commission research by individual Departments to meet those priorities. On the international side, I welcome the Committee's support for our strong links...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: The organisation responsible for assessing the threat is the fairly newly created JTAC—the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. That body, not Ministers, provides information on a sector-by-sector basis on any change in the threat. The Government repeat that, as we have constantly said, the threat is real and serious. The director-general of the Security Service has made it clear that she...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...security measures that would undoubtedly hamper legitimate scientific research and academic freedom. My hon. Friend also mentioned two lists: the Australia list in schedule 5 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and the updated list, which is not yet incorporated in legislation. I can tell him that work on that is still going on. The counter-terrorist security officers, who...

Written Answers — Home Department: Travellers (Photographic Images) (15 Mar 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: The police and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (HMCE) have a key role in combating organised crime at ports, including terrorism. Kent Police and HMCE jointly operate a frontier control Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) system at some Kent ports. This system "reads" the vehicle registrations of passing vehicles, and, at various key locations within the port, captures passing vehicles and...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security (25 Feb 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...spoke about freezing orders and identity fraud, and he has seen the reply in our response to the Newton committee. On the freezing orders, it is important that he notes that while we have used the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2001 up to date, there may be some time in the future when we will need to act on our own quickly. It is therefore important to keep that power in place....

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security (25 Feb 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...bringing to court witnesses, whose lives would then be threatened—offer us no realistic prospect of prosecution in key cases. That is the dilemma that we face in the light of this new kind of terrorism. So how are we facing this threat? First—this point is worth making, because it was not made particularly strongly today— we are prosecuting where we can under existing...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security (25 Feb 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...people who present such a risk when in custody. We will use whichever means we can to get the maximum number of prosecutions, and the maximum level of sentence for any person whom we suspect of terrorism, whether it means using criminal law or not. In terms of how we are dealing with the current situation, we also have the part 4 provisions. I want to make a couple of points about the...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security (25 Feb 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...subject to our usual criminal justice processes, what does he think should happen to individuals about whom the intelligence evidence is more than highly suggestive that they are planning acts of terrorism against citizens of this country? What is his solution to that dilemma?

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (26 Jan 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: .... The police and other organisations will not have routine access to data stored on the National Register. However, there are strong arguments for giving them access to help fight serious crime and terrorism. Such access will be set out in statute and there will be independent oversight of the arrangements as there is at the present time. There will be no new power for the police to stop...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Scientific Response to Terrorism (22 Jan 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: I am today publishing the Government's reply to the Eighth Report from the Science and Technology Select Committee, Session 2002–03, on the scientific response to terrorism. The Government thank the Committee for their report of 6 November 2003. We have considered in detail the recommendations put forward. Copies of the Government's response are available in the Libraries of both...

Written Answers — Home Department: Islam (21 Jan 2004)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...religion. For example, the Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 already contains provisions which make it a criminal offence to incite or arouse fear of racial or religious hatred. The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 created new religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales, under which crimes such as assault and criminal damage attract a higher maximum penalty if...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (11 Dec 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...responsibility of the Home Office. These include strengthening immigration controls, providing a means to encourage legal routes of migration to the United Kingdom, combating organised crime and terrorism and reducing identity fraud. The national identity cards scheme will be built incrementally by strengthening existing forms of identification, some of which are currently issued by the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Identity Cards (10 Dec 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: .... An identity card scheme will provide a number of benefits including to help deter and prevent illegal immigration and illegal working and to combat identity fraud enhancing our capability to counter terrorism and serious and organised crime. Identity cards will make it easier to prove entitlement to public services and faster to prove one's own identity for public or private...

Written Answers — Home Department: Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Dec 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has overall responsibility for immigration, asylum and counter-terrorism issues as part of his ministerial portfolio. On these issues, I provide in-depth support and scrutiny. All ministerial appointments are the responsibility of the Prime Minister.

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration Appeals (18 Nov 2003)

Ms Beverley Hughes: ...we do have an obligation to protect national security and public safety and we would be deficient in this duty if we did not properly assess all information involved in association with the war on terror.