Results 1-20 of 162 for terrorism speaker:Simon Hughes

Sri Lanka (5 Feb 2009) has video

Simon Hughes: Absolutely. Many of us have been accused of being supporters of the Tamil Tigers, but I have never supported terrorism as a way forward in Sri Lanka. My appeal is to the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE to renounce arms, but the Tamils will do so only if they have confidence that they will be protected. Just as the Sri Lanka Government may not have confidence in many Tamils, for reasons...

Bill Presented: Local Government Finance (4 Feb 2009) has video

Simon Hughes: The Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing was very helpful in response to my second bite at the cherry. He said that he accepted that he would revise the funding formula to take account of new and up-to-date assessments of migration and population figures before the next three-year funding period, at the latest. Will this Minister do the same? He knows the arguments: we...

Business of the House (20 Nov 2008) has video

Simon Hughes: ...in the Library in the remaining days of this Session? Yesterday, we saw a demonstration outside the House in support of a journalist called Mr. Tissainayagam, who has been accused under prevention of terrorism legislation and held since March in Sri Lanka. That country has been given the lowest press freedom rating of any democratic country in the world, according to Reporters Without...

Points of Order: Summer Adjournment (22 Jul 2008) has video

Simon Hughes: ...together in Sri Lanka, including the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz), who is in his place, and others. There has been conflict in that country for far too long. Violence and terrorism are unacceptable. Unless everybody is brought round the table and engaged in the process—Sinhala and Tamil, all the faith communities, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian, and...

Business of the House (12 Jun 2008) has video

Simon Hughes: ...considerable difficulty in dealing with their legislation after the summer break? In that context, what is now the expected time in the Government's programme for Royal Assent to the Counter-Terrorism Bill? May we have a debate on relations between the UK and China? I have asked for one before, and it is obviously more and more important as the Olympic games come down the track. I hope...

Business of the House (18 Feb 2008)

Simon Hughes: ..., I welcome the fact that the Leader of the House expects the Bill to come back to us, if there are any Lords amendments, on Thursday. Because we have two other important pieces of business, on terrorism matters and social security uprating, which by tradition and by arrangement are fixed in their time, may I suggest that, with the consent of both Opposition parties, she might agree that...

Topical Debate: European Scrutiny (Standing Orders) (7 Feb 2008)

Simon Hughes: ...as to whether we need only three—should contain a core of expertise that remains. Let us consider the example of the Committee that will deal with justice and home affairs. Such issues—terrorism, immigration and so on—are important. Even if the UK has the opt-outs under the Lisbon treaty, or even with a loss of business, that Committee will need people who know what they...

Business of the House (7 Feb 2008)

Simon Hughes: ...topic for debate after we come back for the second half of term? The Leader of the House will realise from this week's comments that there is great concern in relation to the Government's Counter-Terrorism Bill. The concern is that a little part has been slipped in dealing with coroners' inquests, particularly those that take place in private. Will she come back to us after the recess and...

Draft Legislative Programme (25 Jul 2007)

Simon Hughes: ...effective action when things go wrong, so that there are not repeated occasions when we say, "Oh that was terrible, those people were treated so badly." Today, there were statements about counter-terrorism and emergency powers and I shall not repeat our arguments about them. The draft legislation process is a good one and we shall take part in it constructively, but the test of whether it...

Policing in London (3 May 2007)

Simon Hughes: ...extended family is around. Irish families used to be good at that and now that often applies to Caribbean and African families. However, everyone has a responsibility for ensuring that respect matters. Terrorism has been a huge blot on London's recent history. In commending the police as a whole in the three forces that we have talked about, I particularly commend those who deal with...

Points of Order: Protection of Critical Infrastructure (2 May 2007)

Simon Hughes: ..., with which we have to comply—people have to make a case for it. If the measure is on the agenda, it is because Governments have asked for it to be there because they were worried about terrorism or the risk to European energy supplies. As the Minister said in his intervention, this is not only about our people in this country; Britons are working, living and studying all over the...

Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]: Al-Yamamah Arms Agreement (7 Feb 2007)

Simon Hughes: ...SIS has authorised me to say that it is clear about the importance of the Saudi counterterrorist effort to the UK." No one can argue with that: of course a relationship with an ally to deal with terrorism is valuable. The Attorney-General went on to say that the view of the SIS was "that it would not be possible to replicate the level of counter-terrorism effort that had been achieved with...

Point of Order: Serious Fraud Office Investigation (14 Dec 2006)

Simon Hughes: ...and advice from a foreign Government, as well as from the head of the Administration in the United Kingdom. Given that Parliament, led by the Prime Minister, said how important it was that we passed the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 to ban international bribery and corruption, is not the predominant justification for a decision that the rule of law needs to follow that Act's...

Public Bill Committee: Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill: Clause 3 (12 Dec 2006)

Simon Hughes: ...Ireland. As the Minister and colleagues well know, Northern Ireland is the one part of the United Kingdom where for a long period, going back to the 1970s, and for particular reasons—namely terrorism concerns—trial without jury has existed in what are called the Diplock courts. Particular criteria must be met, but that is considered. What is now happening is the welcome...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Simon Hughes: ...Secretary goes further with the part of the Bill that deals with such issues as intent, and there is potential for consensus elsewhere. That, surely, must be the best basis for legislation against terrorism.

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Mr Simon Hughes: Does the hon. Gentleman remember that when the Government last came to us, in 2001, with emergency powers to deal with terrorism, there was tension between the two Houses and a deadline to meet? However, a resolution was achieved because two principles were accepted by the Government—first, that there should be due process throughout, and secondly, that there should be a sunset clause....

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill: New Clause 6 — Power to make control orders (28 Feb 2005)

Mr Simon Hughes: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, from the time of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and that of the imprisonment of people in Belmarsh, the Government have issued no invitation to take part in two or three-party proceedings to discuss what should happen if, ultimately, the courts ruled, as many of us argued, that their proposals were illegal?

Belmarsh Judgment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...it not be far more acceptable, and better meet the Home Secretary's objectives, if the police were able to arrest someone if they believed that they were conspiring to commit an offence related to terrorism? That is what happens now, and as long as the police officer has a reasonable suspicion, it is not necessary to go to the courts every time the police want to arrest someone. Why cannot...

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (13 Dec 2004)

Mr Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library guidance to police forces following the publication of an ethnic breakdown of stop and search under the Terrorism Act 2000 on 2 July 2004.

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (1 Sep 2004)

Mr Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the operation of stop and search powers in England (a) generally and (b) under counter-terrorism legislation.