Results 1-20 of 41 for terrorism speaker:John Stanley

[Mr.Greg Pope in the Chair] — Arms Export Controls (5 Nov 2009)

John Stanley: ...was present there. I want to deal quickly with Israel and Iran. I welcome the recent written statement by the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, in which she used the provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to stop UK financial services contacts with the Iranian bank Mellat and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. As she said, that was done because both those entities have...

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Human Rights (18 Dec 2008)

John Stanley: ...anyone, terrorist action out of Gaza towards the Israeli settlements in southern Israel. It is indefensible, I condemn it utterly, and I fully support the Israeli Government in dealing with it, but terrorism must be countered by targeting the terrorists. Terrorism cannot be countered by a system of reprisals against the general civilian population. The situation in the west bank is little...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (27 Mar 2008)

John Stanley: ...to extend extraterritoriality to bigamy, which I am sure hon. Members will endorse as an excellent decision. That has continued through 24 other separate pieces of legislation, right up to the Terrorism Act 2006. The difference between the Committees and the Government is therefore no longer one of principle; indeed, the former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the right hon....

[Mr. Greg Pope in the Chair] — Global Security (Middle East) (24 Jan 2008)

John Stanley: ...functioning, independent state. That requires political action, the cessation of violence and the ending of the murderous subjection of civilians in Israel and in the occupied territories to terrorism, as far as Hamas and others are concerned, and to specific military action from the Israelis. I ask the Minister to address that issue. I turn now to Lebanon. I was fortunate to be among the...

[Mr. Christopher Chope in the Chair] — Human Rights (11 Oct 2007)

John Stanley: ...law-abiding civilian males, of the basic necessities of life in the pursuit of terrorists. It is not merely morally indefensible but politically crass. The key element in dealing successfully with terrorism, as we learned over many decades in Northern Ireland, and as we still learn today inside the United Kingdom in trying to deal with the al-Qaeda terrorist threat, is to deal with the...

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (22 Feb 2007)

John Stanley: ...to the whole gamut of conventional arms also. I should therefore like to flag up to the Minister and the Government the fact that there is a huge legal loophole and that, in this world of global terrorism and global illicit trafficking of weapons and components, we must address the issue of trying to interdict those shipments when the ships carrying them are outside territorial waters,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Act (8 Jan 2007)

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been detained in connection with terrorism-related inquiries and then released since the Terrorism Act 2006 came into effect; for how many days each of those detainees were held in detention; and how many of those detainees the police would have wished to detain for a period longer than 28 days while they continued...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Act (5 Jan 2007)

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been detained in connection with terrorism-related inquiries and then released since the Terrorism Act 2006 came into effect; for how many days each of those detainees were held in detention; and how many of those detainees the police would have wished to detain for a period longer than 28 days while they continued...

Quadripartite Committee Reports (16 Mar 2006)

John Stanley: ...as far as certain categories of criminal offence are concerned. We have accepted—there is all-party agreement in all these areas—extraterritorial criminal legislation on terrorism, serious organised crime and sexual offences against children overseas. In all those areas, rightly, extraterritoriality has been accepted. I urge the Government most strongly to fill in the glaring...

Terrorism (Foreign Policy Aspects) (8 Dec 2005)

John Stanley: ...important, although it was used in a wholly incorrect context as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. The Prime Minister referred to two key threats—weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. He made the key point that if those two threats should come together, the seriousness for all countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, would be great. He said: "The...

Nepal (22 Jun 2005)

John Stanley: ...to initiate this brief but necessary debate on Nepal. It is one of the extraordinary paradoxes of the world since 9/11 that while huge attention has justifiably been focused on the war against terrorism, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, and then in relation to al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-type elements all round the world, precious little attention has been paid to the country that is most in...

War against Terrorism (20 May 2004)

Mr John Stanley: ...last week, members of the Foreign Affairs Committee were in Afghanistan, where things are absolutely in the balance. The next few weeks will be critical. The situation in Afghanistan is unstable. Terrorism continues, although mercifully at a relatively low level. It is worrying that the all-important so-called DDR programme—disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration—is...

Iraq (21 Apr 2004)

Mr John Stanley: ...for war in Iraq. There was no invasion, such as the one that precipitated the first Gulf war, no looming humanitarian disaster, such as precipitated the war in Kosovo, and no appalling act of terrorism, such as what happened on 9/11, which precipitated the war in Afghanistan. Quite uniquely, the war in Iraq rested fundamentally on an intelligence assessment that Saddam Hussein had weapons...

Iraq (21 Apr 2004)

Mr John Stanley: ...out military operations of one sort or another based on an intelligence assessment. However, given the way that the world is going—and given everything that we are told about the extent of terrorism, the proliferation of WMD and the clear intentions of certain terrorist organisations to try to get access to them—it will be a near miracle if we get through the next five or 10...

International Affairs (27 Nov 2003)

Mr John Stanley: ...to contribute to security, and it would have been absolutely catastrophic for our attempts to achieve a political settlement and a resolution of the difficulties that we have experienced from terrorism in Northern Ireland. I hope that, inside Israel, there will be a continuing and accelerating debate as to whether the wall provides any reality of security or simply an illusion. I have...

Written Answers — Treasury: Life Insurance (17 Sep 2003)

Mr John Stanley: ...to the letter from the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling of 7 March 2003 to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the provision of life insurance against loss of life through acts of terrorism.

Bali Bombings (3 Mar 2003)

Mr John Stanley: ..., and I recently discussed it personally with the Foreign Secretary. My murdered constituent's life assurance policy is the subject of challenge because the loss of life occurred through an act of terrorism. The issue has been referred to the Financial Secretary. Will the Minister assure hon. Members that the Financial Secretary will make a full report on that important issue to the House...

Bali: ISC Report (11 Dec 2002)

Mr John Stanley: ...this morning, in advance of the Foreign Secretary's statement, that the employer has now expressed doubts as to whether the life policy will be valid because his late son lost his life in an act of terrorism? The Foreign Secretary has rightly made it clear that there is a continuing grave threat to British citizens abroad and possibly in this country as well. Can he assure the House that...

Intelligence Agencies (11 Jul 2002)

Mr John Stanley: ...as they can place in the public domain. What is undeniable, however, is that the appalling and tragic events of 11 September were the logical continuation of a clearly established pattern of terrorism in which United States personnel were the principal targets and in which modes of transport were steered, directed or driven by those who were prepared to take their own lives in a suicide...

Intelligence Agencies (11 Jul 2002)

Mr John Stanley: ...today. Looking at the paragraph about the future programme of work, I was somewhat surprised that it did not include—explicitly and clearly—scrutiny of the agencies' work to counter terrorist threats to the UK. Perhaps that is implicit, but the House and indeed the wider public might have been reassured had it been stated more explicitly. Let me now deal with the situation...