Results 1-17 of 17 for terrorism speaker:Austin Mitchell

Written Answers — Home Department: Internet (9 Jul 2009)

Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will discuss with Phorm the potential for the use of its technologies in surveillance of internet use for the purposes of counter-terrorism; (2) whether his Department's note on the applicability of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to targeted online advertising was based on the assumption that internet users...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Austin Mitchell: ...that all this might well work, however. The Irish have been scared into thinking that if they vote no this time, they will be on their own and out of Europe, and that they will therefore not get all their agricultural subsidies, which will produce terror. I remember my first visit to Brussels. It was in the early '80s, and I was with a party of Irish MPs. One of them was a member of Fianna...

Written Answers — Treasury: Bank Services (17 Nov 2008)

Austin Mitchell: ...Freezing Order 2008; and what prior notice he gave of his intention to make the order; (8) for what reason he took action against the assets of Landsbanki Bank using powers under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Detainees (16 Jun 2008)

Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many suspects arrested under anti-terrorism legislation have been released without charge at the end of the maximum pre-charge detention period because there was not sufficient evidence to bring charges in each of the last five years.

Bokhari Family (Deportation) (6 Feb 2007)

Austin Mitchell: ...he would face, and the violence that had taken place. Family were telling him about their fears about what would happen if the Bokharis were returned. Newspapers talked about communal violence, terrorism and instability in the area. I sent all that evidence to Ministers as part of my representations. My second question therefore is: is it any use making representations to Ministers or is...

Orders of the Day: Clause 155 — Companies required to have at least one director who is a natural person (17 Oct 2006)

Austin Mitchell: ...directors, who were often living in tax havens. I want to enforce the principle in the UK and make it possible for us to deal with all kinds of infringements from money laundering, financing of terrorism and tax avoidance to criminals operating through a shelf company. How will we deal with any of that unless we agree to the amendments? Our simple provision is that a real person—the...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (28 Jun 2005)

Austin Mitchell: ...As I said, it is when we have to search for a problem for this ingenious little measure to solve that the doubts begin to appear. The Government are not now saying that it is intended to deal with terrorism. It certainly did not do so in Spain or in the US. If people can come here for three months without being required to have an ID card, that will be the time to commit any acts of...

Written Answers — Home Department: Police Paperwork (8 Dec 2004)

Mr Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the evidence of the Minister for Crime Reduction, Policing, Community Safety and Counter-Terrorism to the Home Affairs Select Committee of 26 October, on what research his estimate of the number of items of police paperwork reduced since 1997 was based; and if he will make a statement.

Fisheries (2 Dec 2004)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...pro-European, to use the opportunity presented by the Conservative party committing itself to withdrawing from the common fisheries policy to go to the negotiations in Brussels quaking with terror, saying, "This firebrand spokesman for the Opposition is going round the port rousing the fishermen to a policy of withdrawal. You must give us further concessions so that we can beat off this...

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Measures (13 Dec 2001)

Mr Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason he has registered the Terrorism (UN Measures) (Channel Islands) Order 2001 of 9 October 2001 in advance of the provisions of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill being passed by Parliament.

Orders of the Day — Limited Liability Partnerships Bill [Lords] (23 May 2000)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...of an accountancy house sues to reclaim money from the audit arm at the same or another big five accountancy house. It is the worst type of incestuous suing. The tenor that auditors have expressed is terror of themselves and of other parts of their own firm.

Orders of the Day — Limited Liability Partnerships Bill [Lords] (23 May 2000)

Mr Austin Mitchell: I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will go on to paint the tear-jerking spectacle of those in accountancy partnerships living in terror in case their yachts, farms, pubs and holiday retreats are suddenly confiscated, but has it ever happened? We estimate that the total revenue set aside from the fee income for contingency claims was no higher than 2.7 per cent. Most of the things that are...

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security: Benefit Integrity Project (16 Nov 1998)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...are being coerced and subjected to a shake down to get them off the benefit that they had received from the previous Administration. We should deal with fraud, but not at the expense of inducing terror among those people who are entitled to benefit.

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security: Fraud Detection (23 Feb 1998)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...work of reforming social security with a more vigorous onslaught on fraud and fiddles, whether they are perpetrated by employers or by beneficiaries, than to create an atmosphere of fear and terror by talking of cuts—cuts in benefit, cuts in rates, cuts in eligibility—and continuing the shakedown that the Conservative Government started among the disabled, which is going on at...

Orders of the Day — Building Societies Bill: Membership and Liability of Members (17 Mar 1997)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...the Prime Minister has opted for felo de se as a system of Government. Owing to the Prime Minister's suicidal inclinations and the junking of so much of the legislative timetable because of his terror and his inability to face up to the defeat that my hairdressing Bill next week would inflict on the Government, we are now being asked to rush through the Building Societies Bill in an...

Orders of the Day — Interception of Communications Bill (12 Mar 1985)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...that it is conventional to say that we need it as a manifestation of our being a great power. It is one of those delusions of grandeur from which we suffer. Even if we need it for state security, to combat terrorism and certain extreme forms of crime, it must be admitted that the abuses of the service endanger those very ends. The entire system of interception and bugging thus becomes...

Local Government: Finance (No. 2) Bill (10 Apr 1984)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...back into the norms of inadequate British performance. After all we have been through, we have reverted to something worse. Earnings are still increasing at a faster rate than production, despite the Government's self-proclaimed achievements. All the sacrifices and the terror of unemployment have been experienced for nothing. As always, investment is low. We are still losing world trade,...