Results 1-20 of 33 for terrorism speaker:Alan Johnson

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: DNA and Fingerprint Retention (11 Nov 2009)

Alan Johnson: .... We therefore propose to strengthen governance arrangements by placing the national DNA database strategy board on a statutory footing and by introducing to it a wider independent membership. Terrorism and National Security—Material taken under any regime (including the Terrorism Act 2000) would be able to be retained beyond the six-year point where there is a case for doing so on...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Arrests (29 Oct 2009)

Alan Johnson: Individuals suspected of terrorism offences are arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and not by specific offence. The Home Office does not hold specific data relating to the number of individuals arrested on suspicion of inciting acts of terrorism overseas. A total of 10 people have been charged with inciting acts of terrorism (under section 59 of the Terrorism Act 2000) since...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Convictions (29 Oct 2009)

Alan Johnson: Section 57 (4) (a) relates to the penalty for offences under section 57. A total of 22 people have been convicted of offences under section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 since 2001. The breakdown of these figures is as follows: in 2001-02 there were 0 convictions; in 2002-03 five people were convicted; in 2003-04 two people were convicted; in 2004-05 one person was convicted; in 2005-06 five...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: Prevent is an essential aspect of the Contest counter-terrorism strategy designed to safeguard our country and its citizens. The Prevent strategy aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism through a variety of initiatives focused on local communities. Delivery of the strategy, expenditure and impact, is monitored routinely to ensure value for money, and effectiveness.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: My right hon. Friend played a very distinctive role in formulating the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism. It was absolutely essential that we brought together the various strands from across the Government to concentrate on these issues, and Charles Farr is leading the operation magnificently. My right hon. Friend is right to point to an aspect that is not often referred to—the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: ...counter-productive, I hope that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues, who would be entitled on Privy Council terms to know exactly what is being done under Prevent and the whole Contest counter-terrorism strategy, do not believe that. Certainly Prevent would be counter-productive if the newspaper story that was carried in one national paper a couple of weeks ago were true. It is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Topical Questions (26 Oct 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: The Home Office puts public protection at the heart of its work to counter terrorism, cut crime, provide effective policing, secure our borders and protect personal identity.

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Electronic Equipment (12 Oct 2009)

Alan Johnson: There are currently 457 secure Blackberry devices issued to civil servants in the Home Office. Of these, 31 secure devices have been issued to staff in the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism. The Identity and Passport Service does not supply Blackberry devices to its staff.

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Control Order Powers (16 Sep 2009)

Alan Johnson: Section 14(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) requires me to report to Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of every relevant three-month period on the exercise of the control order powers during that period. The control order regime I would first like to report to Parliament on the future direction of the control order regime in the light of the...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Olympics (Safety and Security) (21 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...security planning, is publishing two documents today: An unclassified version of our safety and security strategy. This sets out our planning work in detail and in the context of our wider counter-terrorism strategy; and A shorter leaflet setting out the main points of our security planning of wider interest to the public. Copies of these publications are being placed in the Vote Office...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Counter-terrorism (20 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: Today, 20 July, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) changed the UK threat level from international terrorism from severe to substantial. This means that a terrorist attack is a strong possibility. The change in the threat level to substantial does not mean the overall threat has gone away—there remains a real and serious threat against the United Kingdom and I would ask the...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: US-UK Extradition Treaty (15 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...; and further notes that since 2004, people have been convicted on murder, manslaughter and smuggling charges in the UK following extradition from the US, whilst those charged with murder and terrorism offences have been extradited to the USA.". I appreciate the tone in which the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) introduced the debate. The issue is important, and it is...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: US-UK Extradition Treaty (15 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...serious crimes cannot evade justice by virtue of their residence in another country. Such arrangements are critical in an age when crime—in particular, serious and organised crime and terrorism—knows no national borders, and bringing perpetrators to justice depends increasingly on effective co-operation between criminal justice systems across the world. It was wrong to suggest...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...party successfully stood in the general election contained a commitment to introduce identity cards. There was no reference in that manifesto to compulsion and no mention of their use in fighting terrorism. So the manifesto made no spurious claims of what identity cards would do. We won the election. Parliament subsequently approved the legislation, and the Identity Cards Act received...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...that he said, as I was right in what I just said. Our 2005 manifesto—that is what I said—did not contain any reference to compulsion, or to ID cards as a weapon in the fight against terrorism.

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: Let me say it one more time: the platform on which we stood at the 2005 election—the manifesto that said that we would introduce ID cards—made no mention of compulsion and no mention of terrorism.

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...a contribution to tackling identity fraud, benefit fraud, money laundering, people-trafficking, or a whole range of other problems. Incidentally, they would make a contribution towards tackling terrorism; as I have said, identity cards are a tool, not the toolbox. The hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell—my new friend as a supporter of ID cards, I discover—says that he has never...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Identity Cards (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...everything out and claim back their own identity. The question is: do we need to deal more effectively with the problems of identity fraud, which is a feature of illegal working, benefit fraud and terrorism? The answer must surely be yes. Will a national identity register help? Of course it will. The introduction of fingerprint biometric passports from 2012 will secure identities much more...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: National Identity Scheme (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: When we stood at the last election on a manifesto that promised to introduce identity cards, there was no mention of tackling terrorism. Identity cards will have some benefit in that area, but that is not why they are being introduced. The reason, supported by the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) and the Opposition before the last election, was that it...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Counter-terrorism Strategy (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: The Government's strategy for countering international terrorism is assessed formally on a regular basis. Our revised strategy, which was presented to Parliament earlier this year, is one of most comprehensive and wide-ranging approaches to tackling terrorism in the world. It sets out how we are, first, tackling the immediate threat through the relentless pursuit of terrorists and disruption...