Results 1-20 of 29 for terrorism speaker:David Ruffley

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (9 Jul 2009) has video

David Ruffley: The right hon. Gentleman anticipates my next point. I was about to say that the Government, in publishing their Contest 2 counter-terrorism strategy, have attempted to explain the nature of the terror threat and the need for robust policies to face it, but the fullest explanations are required. It is therefore pertinent to consider the concerns about Operation Pathway and the arrest of 12...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 73 (24 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...Borders, when asked, has given no public information on progress. One might say that that is commercial in confidence information and that it cannot really talk about it, but in these days of an ever present threat of terrorism, we are talking about a Government programme that has been announced and will allow for better alerts at relevant border points where individuals who might pose a...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 60 (24 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...face of the Bill that disputes do, in fact, relate to the costs of policing to be borne by an aerodrome manager, because the Yorkshire Post, using rather colourful language, suggested that it was a terror tax. The payments that this part of the Bill implies, are payments that are going to be extracted from private businesses, aerodrome operators, and in that sense it can be called a...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 60 (24 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...who can serve on that group is the chief officer of the force in the area where the airport is located. He might want to reflect on that with his hon. Friend the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing. I would understand if he were concerned about competitive tendering, but this is a technical point about collaboration agreements operating locally and about who the...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 60 (24 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...; The proposed changes are, in effect, the substance of the clause under discussion, and the Yorkshire Evening Post labelled them—I am not saying that I agree with this language—“a terror tax”. It reported: “Leeds Bradford Airport will be slapped with a multi-million pound ‘terror tax’ under a new law proposed by the Government. Legislation unveiled in...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 5 (5 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...level 2 interchangeably with protective services to ensure that the Committee is not detained for too long. Those services relate primarily to serious and organised crime, child protection issues, terrorism and so forth. That important report came to the conclusion that “when viewed from the context of the range of challenges and future threats now facing the service and the...

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill: Clause 5 (5 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...in areas even more specific than that, such as water search, air support, hostage and crisis negotiation and firearms. Additionally, Derbyshire is a lead force for the east midlands counter-terrorism intelligence unit. The collaboration is overseen by a collaboration board, comprising the chairs of the five police authorities that I referred to, and the five chief constables. This is...

Bill Presented: Police Grant Report (4 Feb 2009) has video

David Ruffley: ...committed at knife-point have increased by 18 per cent. This year's settlement is the second part of the three-year 2007 comprehensive spending review. Excluding additional grants for counter-terrorism and other specific grants, the police settlement increase will be 2.7 per cent. this year, as the Minister said. A total of 20 police authorities will receive the lowest increase, of 2.5 per...

Bill Presented: Police Grant Report (4 Feb 2009) has video

David Ruffley: ...to the rapid changes that have happened. That was where the problems arose. The funding formulas are not rapid and flexible enough to deal with change." Even the former Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing, the right hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty) said in oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee at the end of 2007 that "the Government collectively is...

Public Bill Committee: : Clause 1 (3 Feb 2009)

David Ruffley: ...say that it is another bit of useless legislation. That, in answer to my hon. Friend, would be my assessment, unless the Minister’s reply tells me otherwise. The Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing (Mr. Vernon Coaker)rose—

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill (27 Jan 2009)

David Ruffley: ...but their implementation under the Bill is contentious. The same can be said of alcohol misuse and the proceeds of crime in part 4. The Opposition are tough on serious organised crime, and tough on terrorism, so the reform of the proceeds or assets from crime regime has our general support. The way in which those provisions will be implemented, however, is quite another question, and it...

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

David Ruffley: Under part 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000, the Secretary of State has the power to proscribe any organisation that commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for terrorism, promotes or encourages terrorism or is otherwise concerned in terrorism. Proscription is a very tough power. Any organisation that is on the list of proscribed organisations is outlawed in the UK. It is a criminal...

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

David Ruffley: ...in Argentina in 1992 and on an Israeli cultural centre in that same country in 1994. In 2000, Hezbollah operatives captured three Israeli soldiers and kidnapped an Israeli non-combatant. Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre recently suggested that Hezbollah has a new, additional presence in Iraq, and on 16 April 2008, UN Security Council resolution 1701 was passed, calling for armed...

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

David Ruffley: .... On 2 July, in Prime Minister's questions, he indicated that the proposal before us was based "solely on the grounds of new evidence of its"— that is, Hezbollah's— "involvement in terrorism in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories." I should be grateful if the Minister expanded on what the evidence is to which the Prime Minister referred and said when that new...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Counter-Terror Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

David Ruffley: ...short, they be answered in writing. I would like to dwell on some of the things in my hon. Friend's speech that strike me as important. First, do we now actually have a lead Department for counter-terrorism? Secondly, how will we as a country measure the success of the Prevent strategy? The Government are extremely keen to measure things across whole swathes of public policy, sometimes...

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

David Ruffley: Under part 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000, the Secretary of State has the power to proscribe any organisation that commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for terrorism, promotes or encourages terrorism, or is otherwise concerned in terrorism. Proscription is a tough power. Any organisation that is on the list of proscribed organisations is outlawed in the United Kingdom. It is a...

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

David Ruffley: ..., from the tenure of the now Secretary of State for Justice as Home Secretary onwards, tried to act in good faith on what is obviously a sensitive issue. However, the Minister for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing would probably like the opportunity to respond to those questions. I am not entirely clear about what the Minister can share with us on the Government's assessment...

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (22 May 2008)

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had their vehicle stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since 2000; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence in (A) each police force area and (B) England and Wales.

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (22 May 2008)

David Ruffley: ...for the Home Department with reference to the Answer of 16th October 2007, Official Report, column 983W, on stop and search, what the ethnicity was of each person stopped under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 since 2004-05.

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (30 Apr 2008)

David Ruffley: ...searched under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 in each year since 1997; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence in (A) each police force area and (B) England and Wales.