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Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Commencement (5 Mar 2008) has video

Geraldine Smith: .... I believe that many of the perceived benefits of belonging to the EU are not dependent on our continuing membership of it, such as co-operation with EU partners on measures to deal with terrorism, people trafficking, drug and gun smuggling and other forms of international crime. Is that co-operation really dependent on our continuing membership? I do not think so. It is more likely that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 May 2006)

Geraldine Smith: The Home Office is a huge Department covering crime, antisocial behaviour, drugs, prisons, international terrorism and people trafficking—all sorts of issues. It is mission impossible for almost any Home Secretary—[Hon. Members: "Especially this one."] No, I think that this Home Secretary will sort the problems out and should remain in his job. Does the Prime Minister agree that...

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

Geraldine Smith: On people trafficking, international terrorism and illegal immigration, if identity cards are so helpful and so essential, why is this scheme voluntary?

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Geraldine Smith: I can understand what the Minister is saying about the need to work across Departments, but with something so serious as terrorism there is also a need for someone to take ultimate charge and to have the power to work across Departments. What happens if one is dealing with another Department and it says that it has to refer back to its Minister? Such matters are difficult, unless they can be...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Geraldine Smith: ...the Government setting up a home defence agency, they would realise that the Government were taking the threat seriously? Although the public hear the Prime Minister saying that the fight against terrorism is a priority, they do not see any back-up. That needs to happen to make the general public realise how serious the situation is.

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Geraldine Smith: There is no doubt in my mind that the terrible acts of terrorism that occurred on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America brought home in the starkest possible fashion the threat to freedom and democracy posed by international terrorists. The devastation and carnage and the chilling disregard shown by the perpetrators for any human life, including their own, sent shock waves...

The Scientific Response to Terrorism (18 Mar 2004)

Ms Geraldine Smith: I thank the hon. Gentleman. I agree with what he says. Iraq is a better place because Saddam Hussein is gone. People who think that we are threatened by terrorism because we went to war are mistaken and naive; that threat existed before the war with Iraq, and there is no rhyme or reason governing why those fanatical people attack certain countries. The Government and the official Opposition...

Gangmaster (Licensing) Bill (27 Feb 2004)

Ms Geraldine Smith: ...flowing from them. I shall of course refrain from doing so, except to say that whenever I reflect on the terrible events of that day, I find it extremely difficult to free my mind from the sense of terror, helplessness and despair that those young men and women must have felt as they stumbled blindly, in the darkness, through the freezing waters of Morecambe bay, gripped by the growing...