Results 1-7 of 7 for terrorism speaker:Miss Melanie Johnson

Public Bill Committee: Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 - Radiation protection functions (29 Jun 2004)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...as a way of achieving the protection that we need. As I said, that integration of functions makes it easier for the agency to tackle the wide range of challenges that it now faces, including CBRN terrorism threats. The hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam referred to the devolved Administrations. The appropriate authorities are not responsible for the same things. A devolved Administration...

Public Bill Committee: Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Health functions (29 Jun 2004)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ..., the provision could be more widely construed, and I think that that was the point that the hon. Gentleman was raising. The hon. Member for Newark commented on the more creative forms of terrorism, as it were, and the threats that we face. Obviously we must all be alert to those possibilities and I share his concerns about them. I do not have any information about the detailed nature of...

Public Bill Committee: Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Health functions (29 Jun 2004)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...website makes a lot of information available to the public. That may be the most readily available way to provide advice. It will also be able to do so under clause 4(1)(g). Preparedness for CBRN terrorism is not an issue for the HPA, as hon. Members accept. The national health service, the Government—including the Home Office, which the hon. Member for Rayleigh mentioned—and...

Public Bill Committee: Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Health functions (29 Jun 2004)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...and health emergency planning; and to commission and carry out research to inform any of these activities. It will need to maintain an understanding of current, new and emerging problems, including terrorism.'' As I see it, that covers the whole gamut of points that Opposition Members raised. They rightly asked what the agency's scope was and I have told them what we set out in 2002. We...

Orders of the Day — Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords] (21 Jun 2004)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...needs. We expect those arrangements to be taken over by the agency that is established by the Bill. The HPA has also strengthened our ability to respond to threats from chemical and biological terrorism. In particular, it has co-ordinated a number of training exercises and has recently issued a set of "clinical action cards" for GPs, which contain advice on identifying and treating victims...

Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill: Clause 233 — Statutory Functions (30 Oct 2002)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...now, but I am grateful to him for raising it. Lords Amendments Nos. 151 and 152 bring the disclosure gateway for criminal proceedings in part 9 into line with the equivalent gateway in the Anti- Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. Amendment No. 151 amends the gateway to allow disclosure to Xany person" for the purposes of criminal proceedings. We made that change after listening to...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Action against Terrorism (15 Oct 2001)

Miss Melanie Johnson: ...allow for the winding up of companies and I understand my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will be announcing shortly a number of steps including a package of financial measures to tackle terrorism.