Results 1-20 of 37 for terrorism speaker:Alan Simpson

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Detainees (26 Nov 2007)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2007, Official Report, column 86W, on terrorism detainees, how many of the eight people detained and charged were charged with terrorism offences only.

Orders of the Day: Police and Justice Bill (24 Oct 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...to the very important starting point of this debate—the treatment of Gary McKinnon, who hacked into US computers and posted a note on a website saying that the US was guilty of state terrorism. He was arrested in the UK but was not charged—if he had been charged, he would probably have got community service. He faces extradition for an offence that may be punished with a prison...

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Aerodrome charges: noise and emissions (8 May 2006)

Alan Simpson: ...Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, he said that climate change is a bigger threat to our survival than terrorism. We have to address the damage that the doubling or trebling of carbon emissions, resulting from the expansion of freight and passenger air transport, will do to the environment that we...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Alan Simpson: ...calling for the removal of the Karimov regime and free democratic elections. Apparently we did so on the advice of the intelligence services that the group in question was responsible for acts of terrorism within its own country. Two days later, in The Guardian, the then British ambassador to Uzbekistan took issue with that and, as someone who had visited the sites where it was claimed...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 1 — Encouragement of Terrorism (2 Nov 2005)

Alan Simpson: ...regarded not as a revolutionary tract, but as an honourable, distinguished and legitimate book. However, it falls foul of the Bill's definitions of acts of incitement of, and encouragement of, terrorism.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Act (1 Nov 2005)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the organisations, causes, or movements that each of the people so far convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 were associated with.

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Alan Simpson: ...the House relate to the final part of what the Home Secretary said about necessary and appropriate means. Will he confirm that of the 900 or so people who have been arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act 2000, there has not been a single successful prosecution made for membership of any organisation on the burgeoning proscribed list, which we are told must be banned internationally....

Orders of the Day — Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (13 Oct 2005)

Alan Simpson: ...of my starting points was to ask what we knew about the involvement of any of them in the current risk or threat to the United Kingdom. So far, 895 people have been arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act 2000, of whom 55 per cent. were released without charge, 15 per cent.—138 people—were charged and 2.5 per cent., which makes a grand total of 23, were convicted of...

Orders of the Day — Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (13 Oct 2005)

Alan Simpson: ..., because they are somehow part of civilisation. I worry when, at each stage of a banning process, we are faced with a list of organisations whose crime has been to shift allegiance from pro-western terrorism to anti-western terrorism, and which excludes organisations that advocate precisely the same acts of terrorism against regimes that the west does not like.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: "Security, Terrorism and the UK" (12 Oct 2005)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has read the report, "Security, Terrorism and the UK", jointly published by the Economic and Social Research Council and Chatham House.

Written Answers — Defence: Security, Terrorism and the UK" Report (10 Oct 2005)

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has read the report, Security, Terrorism and the UK", jointly published by the Economic and Social Research Council and Chatham House.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Risk Insurance (12 Sep 2005)

Alan Simpson: ...Department what assessment he has made of the implications for the United Kingdom of the conclusions of the recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Terrorism Risk Insurance in OECD Countries, published on 5 July.

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

Alan Simpson: ...that. I will try to confine my speech to my worries about three things. A number of claims made in the Bill are unproven or just not true. In terms of the effects—in terms of tackling terrorism, crime or drug trafficking—I am very grateful to a retired scientist who took the trouble to undertake a European comparison of crime statistics on four parameters. He broke the EU 15...

Climate Change and the Environment (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...about 2015. When Professor Sir David King came to talk to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, he was clear about the time scale and said that climate change was a much bigger threat than terrorism. As for the 2015 timetable, that is not when the world will end but when, scientists tell us, we will be locked into irreversible change. This is the period in which we can do...

Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice) (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...Parliament to hold itself to account to international law, as judged by other international bodies, is the central issue at stake. This weekend the Prime Minister made a speech about the war on terrorism. He made an important point when he said: "It means reforming the United Nations so its Security Council represents 21st century reality; and giving the UN the capability to act...

Fire Services Bill (8 May 2003)

Mr Alan Simpson: .... There is a case for considering the repeal of section 19 of the Fire Services Act 1947 because there have been many dramatic changes since it was enacted. Firefighters have been at the forefront of saying that terrorism, bio-terrorism and increased expectations of their ability to respond to road accidents and floods have changed the demands on the fire service and must be part of the...

Written Answers — Defence: Medical Reservists (7 Nov 2002)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to include medical staff in a call up of reservists in respect of planned military action against terrorism.

Written Answers — Health: NHS Targets (6 Nov 2002)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff are armed services reservists; and what (a) assessment he has made of the impact of call up connected to the war on terrorism on NHS services and (b) adjustments will be made to current year targets in the NHS.

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act (10 Jun 2002)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people are held under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001; how long each has been held; how many face formal legal charges; how many have been convicted of a terrorist offence; and how many are being held in conditions where normal prisoners' rights do not apply; (2) how many people have been detained under the...

Iraq (6 Mar 2002)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...Prime Minister who has the principal responsibility for addressing them in a debate of the whole House. First, the Prime Minister must understand that a war against Iraq would not be a war against terrorism. Despite the assertions made in the United States immediately after 11 September, there has been no evidence to connect Iraq with those terrible events. It would be wrong to seek to...