Results 1-20 of 20 for terrorism speaker:Martin Salter

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Martin Salter: I regret taking that intervention. The Government have doubled resources for the security services and a record amount of resources are going into counter-terrorism work. However, the hon. Gentleman brings me to my point on the complexity of the challenge facing SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism unit. He himself as a member of the Committee, if he has read his papers, will have...

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Martin Salter: ...I wish to pray in aid is the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Hugh Orde. Hon. Members should bear his comments in mind, because we have considerable experience in tackling terrorism in Northern Ireland. Only a couple of days ago, he said: "Sadly the day will come when the number 28 is important as it will not be high enough. It may not be today or tomorrow but we...

Orders of the Day: "Part IV — Bail (11 Jun 2008) has video

Martin Salter: ...is a need for those powers in the first place. We are now to get a vote after seven days. What meaningful debate could we have after seven days? During my time here, we debated the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in this House for a number of years. When we were deciding whether to extend the exceptional powers in the PTA, we did not discuss individual republican or loyalist terrorist...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: ...s statement a reading of Hansard shows that we had sensible debates on the way forward and good contributions from both sides of the House. Look at the debates on the extension of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which I think ended in 1998 or 1999. I certainly remember two debates in this  House in the time that I have been here. We were not discussing individual IRA or loyalist...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: The hon. and learned Gentleman and I share, if not a common boundary, a common region, and my constituency too has had experience of Metropolitan police counter-terrorism operations. However, he conveniently omitted a common thread from his intervention: although educated in the state system and, at some point, appearing quite anglicised—if I may use that word—many such...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: ...not to have endorsed the war in Iraq. That led to far more concern in minority, and particularly Muslim, communities than any system of amendment to pre-charge detention or specific counter-terrorism proposals. I think that we should get that in context. My starting point in speaking to schedule 1 is that for those of us who served on the Select Committee on Home Affairs there is something...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: ...the middle of a major investigation”. That was alluded to earlier. I can think of nothing more damaging to a major, sensitive and delicate investigation by the security services and counter-terrorism branch than to declare a national state of emergency—and I know the hon. Member for Newark agrees with me on that. That would only give those who wish us harm advance notice and...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: ...the DPP— “to say whether we do or do not want legislation, and I am not prepared to express a view about that—that is not my job.”——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 53, Q136.] I raise this only to put on the record what actually occurred on the afternoon of 22 April, not people’s misinterpretations of it.

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Martin Salter: ...;I am quite satisfied that this provision would be lawful. As I have said, if it was in law, we would use it if we ever found it necessary to do so.”——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 57, Q149.] That takes me back to where I started. The nub of this debate is how we legislate, and whether we legislate in the aftermath and in...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Written evidence to be reported to the House (22 Apr 2008)

Martin Salter: So during your time in government, or slightly before you were in government, but during your time in the House of Lords, we saw the Terrorism Act 2000 extend the maximum period of detention for terrorist suspects from 48 hours to seven days. We saw the Criminal Justice Act 2003 extend the period of pre-charge detention from seven days to 14 days. While you were still in government, we saw...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Written evidence to be reported to the House (22 Apr 2008)

Martin Salter: ...paragraph 43, which states: “However, there is no evidence to show that the incidence of false identities, the number of languages involved or the number of international links in Al-Qaeda-related terrorism have significantly increased since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 (when the maximum period of pre-charge detention in the UK was 7 days), the Madrid bombing in 2004 (when the maximum...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

Martin Salter: ...of having a meaningful debate on the reserve powers mentioned in the Home Secretary's proposals, but has not the House for many years had meaningful debate on the extension of the prevention of terrorism Act powers? Does the Home Secretary not accept that her proposals would be substantially improved if the House, instead of having to wait 30 days, had the opportunity to vote on the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Chilcot Report (6 Feb 2008)

Martin Salter: The Prime Minister is aware that the Home Affairs Committee, in our all-party report on counter-terrorism, concluded that intercept evidence should be used in terrorism trials. However, we also concluded that on its own it was no substitute for other measures—in other words, it was no silver bullet—and that those other measures could include an extension of pre-charge detention...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 - Applications relating to entries in Register (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Martin Salter: Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the statement he has just made? The motivation for supporting an ID cards Bill cannot be purely to engage in the fight against terrorism. Does he not accept that Committee members have different reasons for supporting or opposing the Bill. The fight against terrorism is important to me, but the ability of any Government to know exactly who is in the country,...

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Martin Salter: ...the implementation of this Bill. With the general election approaching, the hon. Gentleman may well come to regret that he has described as ''a nut'' such important issues as measures to clamp down on terrorism and identity fraud, and to enable the security services and the Government to combat more effectively those who seek to deal in illegal immigration or benefit fraud.

Asylum Applications (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Martin Salter: ...either by those who seek to profit from human misery or by those who wish the people of this country no good whatever, and who are prepared to take up arms, or use explosions or other acts of terror, for political purposes. In my community, the reaction to the asylum issue of the settled immigrant communities, of British-born blacks and Asians, is interesting and instructive. By way of...

Flooding (Thames Valley) (4 Feb 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ..., is about £19 million for the current year. My local authority in Reading receives only about £67,000 to fund its entire emergency planning operation at a time when we are at risk from not only flooding but terrorism. That paltry sum must be reviewed urgently. The Emergency Planning Society and the Local Government Association have suggested that £70 million is a more...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Jan 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ...year message was a timely reminder of the clear and present danger facing this country, but for some of my constituents who live in areas of high flood risk, global warming is as worrying as global terrorism. The Local Government Association and the Emergency Planning Society have suggested that the current civil defence grant of some #19 million for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is...

Rural Economy (16 Oct 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...party or by the Countryside Alliance. In conclusion, Mr. Deputy Speaker—[Hon. Members: XMore! More!"] You can have 20 more minutes of this! In conclusion, we are facing the threat of global terrorism. We live in a world that is interdependent. We are one people, one nation, one world. The idea that the pathetic divisions that the Conservative party and their allies in the Countryside...

Ministerial Conduct (DTLR) (23 Oct 2001)

Mr Martin Salter: ...for the public domain precisely because it would be potentially upsetting to people. The person who leaked it is the one guilty of insensitivity and should be the one to walk. We are at war against terrorism, the world teeters on a window ledge of danger and uncertainty. It really is time to get a sense of proportion." I advise hon. Members to read the Evening Post more often. So we have...