Results 1-17 of 17 for terrorism speaker:Francis Maude

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Disclosure of Information: Criminal Investigation (12 Nov 2009)

Francis Maude: ...Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter from the Cabinet Office's Director of Security and Intelligence (a) dated 8 October 2008 sent to SO15 Counter Terrorism Command requesting the assistance of the police into the investigation of Home Office leaks and (b) of 29 October 2008 sent to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick calling...

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Operation Miser (28 Oct 2009) has video

Francis Maude: ...it absolutely clear that these leaks were only matters of "embarrassment" that were "not...likely to undermine government's effectiveness." So why did a Cabinet Office director write to counter-terrorism asserting that there was "considerable damage to national security" from these stories and that "the potential for future damage is significant"? Did the Cabinet Secretary, the Prime...

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Operation Miser (28 Oct 2009) has video

Francis Maude: ...On 31 October, the Cabinet Office demanded a scoping exercise that then went into detail about the involvement of "members of the Conservative party". Does the Minister think it right that counter-terrorism officers were misled and used, in effect, to try to intimidate and suppress parliamentary opposition? Given that the Prime Minister himself made his political career as a conduit for a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Charities (1 Apr 2009) has video

Francis Maude: ...when funds for them are limited, it is important that they are bona fide. Will the Minister ensure that action is taken against charities such as Green Crescent, which seems to have been supporting terrorism in Bangladesh?

Measures to Combat Terrorism (26 Jan 2005)

Mr Francis Maude: ...in a free country is the fact that we are more vulnerable? We cannot make an open or free society completely safe. While the powers that he proposes to introduce to replace part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act are less draconian than the existing powers, he is extending their scope. It is very important that such powers, which extend beyond our usual conception of the rule...

The Middle East (16 Apr 2002)

Mr Francis Maude: ...of having our families—our children—blown up by suicide bombers. It is obvious that Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have been lamentably to blame in failing to control the terror, and indeed, in many instances, in positively encouraging it. It is easy for us to hope for restraint; but we should recognise that Ariel Sharon belongs to a strand of Israeli thought...

Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Francis Maude: ...people, who would not have had any sympathy for the kind of gesture politics that might have been involved in instant reaction, but who have a completely steely determination to ensure that the terrorism that inflicted such brutal damage on so many tens of thousands of lives is rooted out. Is the response proportionate? Yes, I think that it is. What was done on 11 September was an act of...

Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Francis Maude: ...criminal gang or network is being harboured in a state that gives it active support and receives active support from it. The only way to exterminate or eradicate the source of that evil and terrorism is to take military action, and that is being done. We cannot send in the international constables to clap handcuffs on people and feel their collars. Military action must be taken. We all...

Intelligence Agencies (29 Mar 2001)

Mr Francis Maude: ...interim report returned to, the important question of the co-ordination of our intelligence efforts through the Joint Intelligence Committee and other forums. In times when international crime and terrorism are increasingly global and complex, the need for better co-ordination is stronger than ever. Any notion that we do not need the services in a post-cold war world should be dispelled...

Lockerbie (31 Jan 2001)

Mr Francis Maude: ...and friends when Pan Am 103 was casually blown out of the sky—those who perished in the air and those whose lives ended on the ground when the name of Lockerbie became synonymous with terrorism. For those families, the intervening 12 years must have seemed an endless struggle to come to terms with the brutal and savage attack conducted for a cause 1 million miles from its victims. We...

Security and Intelligence Agencies (22 Jun 2000)

Mr Francis Maude: ..., as we have seen this week. That is a crucial area of activity and it is right that a greater part of the resources of the agencies should be devoted to activities to counter proliferation and terrorism, and action to disrupt and investigate international crime. The Mitrokhin affair has rightly been the subject of much discussion in this debate. I take this opportunity to applaud the...

El Salvador (2 Feb 1990)

Mr Francis Maude: ...since 1982, despite determined efforts by the FMLN to disrupt both the campaigns and the polling by. major and indefensible intimidation of election officials and of voters through deliberate terror tactics". Dr. Browning's view was that the relatively low voter turn-out was the direct result of those actions. He noted especially that the democratic Left, having formed an electoral...

European Community (Developments) (15 Nov 1989)

Mr Francis Maude: ...the reverse. We all want it to be easier to cross frontiers. I am confident that that can be achieved. But no one would thank us if the price for that was a reduction in effective action against terrorism, drugs and crime. Unless problems are identified realistically and early, it is quite impossible to devise solutions in good time. We are centrally involved in the search for such...