Results 1-11 of 11 for terrorism speaker:Don Touhig

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007) has video

Don Touhig: The international environment in which Britain finds itself is as difficult and complex today as it has been since the end of the cold war. The combined challenges of international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, regional instability and highly organised global crime make it more difficult than ever to plan and effect lasting solutions. The question is how we should devise policies to deal...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007) has video

Don Touhig: ..., the Iranian regime will have to face a choice. Either it must form a constructive partnership with the international community, play a constructive role in the middle east and end its support for terrorism, or it must face political, economic and cultural isolation. The offer is there for the Iranians. They can begin by making commitments to bring their nuclear programme to an end. Syria...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Counter-terrorism (2 Jul 2007)

Don Touhig: ...on television has reassured the British people throughout our land? Everywhere I have been over the weekend, people have praised that. In her statement, she said that expenditure on counter-terrorism had doubled since 2001. Some of us believe that there should be a substantial increase in expenditure on counter-terrorism preparations. She will have much support from hon. Members of all...

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Don Touhig: ...in which Russia has developed and is developing, there is no certainty that we can be secure in our relations with that country. Now we are faced with new dangers and new threats from international terrorism and potential rogue states that would seek to undermine international security by sponsoring acts of terrorism, which could involve dirty bombs and nuclear weapons. In 1956, who would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (Force Levels) (26 Feb 2007)

Don Touhig: ...right one, because it is important that we respond to the requests from our men on the ground and the chiefs and give our servicemen in Afghanistan every help and support they need in fighting the terrorism of the Taliban. However, will he take an early opportunity to engage in a bit of plain speaking with some of our European NATO partners? Their forces are deployed in Afghanistan to...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Don Touhig: ...Lebanon in the past 24 hours and the nuclear ambitions of Iran, those two countries could play as much of a role in creating a stable Iraq as they are now playing in destabilising it by fomenting terror and strife. We engaged in the Iraq conflict without, I believe, a clear plan B. We won the conflict, removed Saddam and disbanded his security forces, only to see the country slip into...

Defence Procurement (2 Feb 2006)

Don Touhig: ...are no less dangerous. We are justifiably proud of our armed forces and the work that they do throughout the world. We ask them to take on major new challenges, including fighting international terrorism, and in doing so many of them, as we have seen in the past few days, pay the ultimate price for the service that they give to our forces and our country. I am sure that every hon. Member...

Defence in the United Kingdom (17 Nov 2005)

Don Touhig: ...know that the decision to review the 2,000 cases was taken not by the Government but by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It was their decision, not ours. He also expressed concern about terrorism. I do not doubt that his concern is genuine; it is only a pity that he was not in the right Lobby when we were voting on the 90-day provision last week. The hon. Member for Kettering (Mr....

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Terrorism (19 Mar 2003)

Mr Don Touhig: The lead responsibility for counteracting terrorism lies with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. However, security at civil nuclear facilities is a matter for the Department of Trade and Industry. The UK's civil nuclear sites apply stringent security measures, regulated by the DTI's Office for Civil Nuclear Security. Both the Wales Office and the Assembly are involved in national...

Health (Wales) Bill: Clause 2 — Wales Centre for Health (9 Jan 2003)

Mr Don Touhig: I am trying to make it clear that the HPA will be a national body. It will tackle the threats—from microbiological attack, chemical and radiological weapons and other hazards, such as terrorism and so on—about which the hon. Gentleman is so worried. The WCH will not have that function; its role will be to support public health in Wales. The two bodies will collaborate closely....

Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill (4 Nov 1996)

Mr Don Touhig: ...Life Sentence", published in December 1995, stated: All those who gave evidence to the Committee accepted that the crime of murder covered acts of a wide range of heinousness. A cold-blooded act of terrorism is far removed from an act of mercy killing, and such differences in the levels of blame exist not only with murder. The professional drug dealer, with his international network of...