Results 1-20 of 34 for terrorism speaker:Robert Key

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Robert Key: ...UK global interests in trade and shipping. More than 90 per cent. of our imports come in by sea, and those trade routes and vessels must be secure against foreign state intervention, as well as terrorism and piracy. That is why our forces must have global reach, and that is why they need aircraft carriers. They must have power projection by land, sea and air, and that must include...

Point of Order: Defence Procurement (9 Oct 2007)

Robert Key: .... We are no longer concerned with the threat of invading armies; we are more interested in cyber warfare. Peace enforcement is a crucial part of the operation of the forces, as is guarding against terrorism, and deterring and defeating it. However, there is also the matter of our country's need for global trade and travel. That is what we have done for hundreds of years, it is a legacy of...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Robert Key: ...with conventional weapons. In 1947, we moved to Salisbury, which was a garrison city. During my schooldays, I vividly remember the invasion of Hungary, the days of Checkpoint Charlie and the terror—always hanging over us—of the cold war, growing to the time of the Bay of Pigs. All that has conditioned the brief remarks I am about to make. I want to address the issue of what we...

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Robert Key: ...Kingdom's global interests in trade and shipping. More than 90 per cent of our imports come by sea. Those trade routes and vessels must be secure from foreign state intervention as well as from terrorism and piracy. That is why our forces must have global reach and power projection by land, sea and air. That must include amphibious capability, unmanned maritime systems, increasing use of...

Orders of the Day: Energy Supply (30 Oct 2006)

Robert Key: It would be unwise for the House to discuss security in any depth or detail, but looking globally at the situation, there are numerous examples of terrorism against pipelines, whether oil or gas. It is particularly on account of gas supplies and the vulnerability of the 80 per cent. that needs to be imported that we should opt for a wider, broader base load including nuclear.

Defence in the United Kingdom (17 Nov 2005)

Robert Key: ...in future. There is a serious side to my mentioning that because in the Church of England General Synod on Tuesday, the Bishop of Southwark initiated a debate entitled "Facing the Challenge of Terrorism", on which the House of Bishops has produced a report, and part of his motion read: "That this Synod . . . urge all political parties, in considering draft legislation to heed the clear...

Porton Down (22 Feb 2005)

Mr Robert Key: ...establishments is world class. Following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the Science and Technology Committee, of which I am a member, undertook an inquiry into the scientific response to terrorism. We took evidence in the White House, the centre for disease control in Atlanta and the Laurence Livermore laboratories in California. Everywhere we went, Porton Down was praised for the...

Veterans' Affairs (9 Jun 2004)

Mr Robert Key: ...Protection Agency next door. Many are world-class scientists. I visited the US last year with the Select Committee on Science and Technology, as part of our inquiry into the scientific response to terrorism. Wherever we went—from the White House, to the centres for disease control in Atlanta or the Lawrence Livermore laboratories in California—we learned of the high regard in...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Mr Robert Key: ...as today's. I looked at a few more websites to see whether anything had changed since last I checked them, and I am delighted to say that a lot had changed and that they had all been updated. The terrorism pages on the Home Office website are extremely informative, as is www.ukresilience.info. The Health Protection Agency website is especially helpful: it is designed to help GPs and anyone...

Traffic Management Bill (5 Jan 2004)

Mr Robert Key: ...in a uniform that appeared to be a security officer's uniform, and that that possibility was very dangerous and a risk not worth taking. I find it strange that, a decade later, when the risks from terrorism are so much greater, it should be decided that the danger of abuse is not very serious after all. On the question of uniforms, as part of the debate in the Department of Transport a...

Genetic Modification (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...completely open. I end with a plea that the Government do something radical: start to be an open Government. It does not matter whether we are talking about nuclear energy, about the response to terrorism or about GM foods—it is about time that our Government came clean with the public. The culture of the United States of America is wholly different in that respect. Some in this...

New Partnership for Africa's Development (29 Apr 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...Development, which is considering aspects of the Doha agenda, and at the same time as the meeting of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, which is considering aspects of the war against terrorism. I do not doubt that more hon. Members would be present if that were not the case.

Science Education (3 Apr 2003)

Mr Robert Key: My hon. Friend is wholly right, and we learned that yesterday when we inquired into the risks relating to bio-terrorism. Of course, the sort of risks that scientists have to quantify in that area are different from what he or I might count as a risk. The problem is that, in Britain, we have not only a non-science but an anti-science culture, which is fuelled, regrettably, by ignorance and...

AIDS (5 Mar 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...for Edinburgh, North and Leith was right to discuss the consequences of the situation for the entire world, and Colin Powell was right when he said that it is as serious a threat as international terrorism. The Bush Administration's record on frustrating the work of the United Nations Population Fund is not good. I want to say to the President, as one Christian to another, that there is no...

Southern Africa Food Crisis (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...to exist—I can hardly say live—under the regime of President Mugabe. The country that was once the bread-basket of the region is now facing disaster. Political instability, the terror associated with land reform policies, economic incompetence, corruption and indifference to the problem of HIV/AIDS can all be laid at the door of Mugabe's Government. In Zimbabwe alone, there are...

Iraq: Contingency Preparations Update (7 Jan 2003)

Mr Robert Key: ...of the United Nations by military force, quite rightly if necessary, does the Secretary of State agree that it would be a hollow victory, and that there would be no victory in the fight against terrorism world wide, if no progress was made on the conflict between Israel and Palestine? Will he therefore not be pushed around by the Government of Israel and remind them that there are one or...

Export Credit Guarantees (23 Jul 2002)

Mr Robert Key: ...to reduce the need for arms around the world. That has been a prime mover in the whole of western strategic defence analysis. We have learnt the lessons of the cold war, and we are now learning the lessons of terrorism and the consequences of asymmetric warfare. We see the horrors of mines around the world and the damage that they do to the economy. We are talking about areas of...

Sudan (13 Mar 2002)

Mr Robert Key: ...Her Majesty's Government and our allies propose to do. Thirdly, I hope to make the case for self-determination for the people of Sudan, both north and south. The world is focused on the war against terrorism, preoccupied by the situation in Afghanistan, mesmerised by the prospect of renewed military action against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, staggered by the violence in the middle east and...

Sudan (13 Mar 2002)

Mr Robert Key: ...debate and all my correspondence with Ministers will be available shortly through the internet on my website, www.robertkey.com. Will the United States, Great Britain and all our allies against terrorism consider the death and dispersal of the African people in southern Sudan in the same way as the plight of the marsh Arabs and the Kurds in Iraq? Will the British Government, with or...

Control of Fireworks (8 Jan 2002)

Mr Robert Key: ...terms: "Firework nuisance. Right that's it. I started to write this letter on Sunday 11th November, the eleventh night in a row that enormous echoing bangs have sent my cat flying downstairs in terror to hide under the dresser. During the small hours of Friday 9th November I was awakened by two explosions. Are we at war? We know we are, and that is all the more reason to control this...