Results 1-20 of 490 for terrorism speaker:Tony McNulty

Women and Equality: Welfare Reform Bill (27 Jan 2009) has video

Tony McNulty: ...to prepare at least the grid of what secondary legislation may follow on from primary legislation. That was certainly true of my approach on previous Bills, such as the one that became the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008. The hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) made a perfectly fair point about the secondary legislation and other bits of legislation that might...

Written Answers — Home Department: Police Patrolling (29 Sep 2008)

Tony McNulty: ...out core policing duties. I am told by Northamptonshire police that they have invested significantly in proactive crime fighting activities to address serious and organised crime, major crime and terrorism. This focused activity has contributed to a reduction in crime for the people of Northamptonshire, but is not included in time on patrol. I am also told that in Northamptonshire, police...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Control Order Powers (11 June to 10 September 2008) (15 Sep 2008)

Tony McNulty: Section 14(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) requires the Secretary of State 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 level of information provided will always be subject to slight variations based on operational advice. Control orders...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Hazardous Substances (Protective Security) (22 Jul 2008)

Tony McNulty: ...important to underline that considerable progress has already been made in recent years to reduce our vulnerability to the use of hazardous substances for terrorist purposes. The National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) provide specialist advice regarding the security of a variety of hazardous substances. They have undertaken a range of activities to reduce the vulnerability of...

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...the subject of today's order. It is fair to dwell momentarily on my right hon. Friend's broader point, which I take, about community, political and other organisations that clearly do not support terrorism, but which are interested in the same areas of politics. That is a grey area; that is entirely clear. However, I simply say in passing that it must be incumbent on individuals who choose...

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...have responsibilities that go beyond simply endorsing the view of an organisation. With that, I happily commend the order to the House. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 2 July, be approved.

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...to do so by substituting the proscription of the Hezbollah External Security Organisation with a new listing covering its entire military wing. This is the seventh proscription order made under the Terrorism Act 2000. Section 3 of the 2000 Act provides a power for the Home Secretary to proscribe an organisation if she believes it is concerned in terrorism. That is achieved by adding the...

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...all the information that we have to hand, as well as the advice that we have received and the discussions that we have had, it is right and proper in the context of the criteria set out in the Terrorism Act 2000 that we proscribe the entire military wing and not just the External Security Organisation. We will continue to maintain the distinction between that wing and the humanitarian,...

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...the External Security Organisation in 2001, but we now want to proscribe the broader military wing. People involved in aspects of Hezbollah activities that, according to the criteria of the Terrorism Act 2000, are found to support or act as a supplicant to the entire military wing will be dealt with under the offences that I have outlined. The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes an...

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (15 Jul 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...—between that organisation's social, political and humanitarian wings, and its military wing. That is very clear. Given the evidence of the military wing of Hezbollah's direct support for terrorism in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories, I believe that it is right that we continue to proscribe the External Security Organisation and that we extend the existing proscription...

Written Answers — Home Department: Counter-Terrorism Bill (7 Jul 2008)

Tony McNulty: h olding answer 10 June 2008 : Under Clause 27 of the Counter-Terrorism Bill, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary must, within two days or as soon as practicable after making an order that the reserve power is exercisable, make a written statement declaring that she is satisfied: that a grave exceptional terrorist threat has occurred or is occurring; the reserve power is needed for the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (7 Jul 2008)

Tony McNulty: The Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, have been listed as proscribed as a terrorist organisation from 2001 under the Terrorism Act 2000. It is a criminal offence for a person to belong to or to invite support for the LTTE in the UK. The UK Government is in contact with the Sri Lankan authorities, law enforcement agencies and other Government Departments...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Leeds (7 Jul 2008)

Tony McNulty: Information on the Home Office's forecast spending on protecting the public from terrorism for the current year and the CSR period are set out in chapter 5 of the 2008 departmental report, which can be found on the Home Office website at the following address: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/ho-annual-report-08 Home Office spend on counter-terrorism is not split and managed by...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...was made in 2001, it was not a terrorist organisation. Indeed, the POAC judgment says that there were reasonable grounds for the belief of the Secretary of State that the PMOI was "concerned in terrorism" at the date that it was originally proscribed, 29 March 2001. As I tried to show in my introductory remarks, it is the PMOI's assertion—we would say—from 2003 onwards that it...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...to see in Hansard. I am terribly sorry if this disappoints, but it is our duty: we will not hesitate to re-proscribe the PMOI if circumstances change and evidence emerges that it is concerned in terrorism. It is not some reckless cat-and-mouse game, but our duty and responsibility under the legislation. That is all there is to it. To reiterate the point of my right hon. Friend the...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: I do not need to give clues; I shall come on to that point. Our role, job and responsibility is to keep organisations that we feel are involved in terrorism under review. I know of no dealings with the Americans in this regard, but, as hon. Members have said, it is quite proper that the PMOI is listed under EU common position 931, based on a national competent authority decision that we...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...2003, we simply do not believe that its intent is entirely passive and peaceful. POAC's judgment, to which it is entitled, is that the organisation's assertions that it is no longer involved in terrorism and taking up arms are genuine and that it should therefore be de-proscribed. In the light of that judgment, we presented the order as quickly as we could. I hope that it will be passed...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: I beg to move, That the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 21st May, be approved. The People's Mujaheddin Organisation of Iran, or PMOI, is opposed to the Iranian Government, and its stated aim is to replace that regime with a secular democracy. Most of its members are based at Camp Ashraaf, which is in Iraq, and...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...and wearing or displaying an article indicating membership of the organisation. Further criminal offences exist in relation to fundraising and various uses of money and property for the purposes of terrorism. A group of 35 interested parties, consisting of Members of this House and of the other place, disagreed with the PMOI's proscription. A statutory procedure exists for any proscribed...

Orders of the Day: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (23 Jun 2008) has video

Tony McNulty: ...hon. Friend the then Home Secretary considered the application carefully, but continued to believe that the PMOI—or the MEK, as my hon. Friend rightly calls it—was still concerned in terrorism. That is the statutory test for proscription, as opposed to what other countries may think.