Results 1-20 of 22 for terrorism speaker:Mark Francois

[Mr. Gary Streeter in the Chair] — UK Relations with Russia (14 Oct 2009)

Mark Francois: ...instance, is large and has great potential. Despite the BP and Shell sagas, Britain is the largest foreign investor in Russia. Britain and Russia have joint concerns about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, nuclear non-proliferation and climate change—issues that should be of concern to all of us. Given that great potential for co-operation, it is regrettable that Russian actions in a...

European Affairs (16 Jun 2009) has video

Mark Francois: ...think—we established working groups between our party and the German CDU-CSU that have looked in detail at issues such as the environment, maintaining European competitiveness, and combating terrorism. More recently, we have established a similar system of working groups with the French UMP. That does not sound like rejection to me. Let me turn to our new grouping in the European...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (29 Jan 2008) has video

Mark Francois: ..., but then dropped their objections with no explanation. Then there are the new EU legislative powers to make laws on the minimum definition of crimes and their penalties in eight areas: terrorism; trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of women and children; illicit drug trafficking; money laundering; corruption; counterfeiting of means of payment; computer crime; and...

[Hugh Bayley in the Chair] — Russia (25 Jul 2007)

Mark Francois: ...to the expulsion of the four diplomats came on 19 July with the expulsion of four British diplomats from our Embassy in Moscow and a statement that it might end co-operation in the fight against terrorism, which we would obviously regret. That is an entirely unjustified act, and the only correct response, as the Foreign Secretary made clear, remains the extradition of Mr. Lugovoy. The...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (28 Mar 2007)

Mark Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UN listed terror suspects are (a) present and (b) suspected by his Department to be present in the United Kingdom.

Point of Order: Police (31 Jan 2007)

Mark Francois: ...support to the Suffolk constabulary during its recent major inquiry. Given that he is seeking to encourage voluntary working together between forces on issues such as the vital fight against terrorism, may I remind him that the Essex police force has considerable experience in those fields because of the special facilities at Stansted and the assistance that it gave to the Met on 7/7? Will...

Written Answers — Treasury: Social Security Benefits: Terrorism (8 Jan 2007)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 11 December 2006, Official Report, column 846W, on social security benefits: terrorism, who the two people are who have had benefits payments licensed; what the (a) type and (b) weekly amount is of each benefit they claim; and what (i) type and (ii) amount of each benefit was claimed by those people issued with each of the 37...

Written Answers — Treasury: Security and Counter-terrorism (18 Dec 2006)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the total cost of his Department's review of security and counter-terrorism across Government; (2) how many officials from his Department have been appointed to liaise with the Home Office review of the UK's counter-terrorism capacity, broken down by grade; (3) how many officials from his Department are employed in...

Written Answers — Treasury: Social Security Benefits: Terrorism (11 Dec 2006)

Mark Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many households have had benefit payments restricted on suspicion of terrorism since July 2006; (2) how many individuals listed for involvement in terrorism had (a) benefits and (b) other payments approved under licence by the Treasury in each of the last 12 months.

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Mark Francois: ...point of principle is involved. When these powers were debated in the House not so long ago, Ministers argued that an extradition agreement of such power was necessary to fight international terrorism. That is why the House was asked to approve that measure. That is fine as far as it goes. We can look any other nation in the eye and say that we have stood shoulder to shoulder with our ally...

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Mark Francois: .... That would easily take us beyond the 4,000 limit. So if the Minister wants a rationale for her own arbitrary figure looking into the medium term, I have just given it to her. I turn to fighting terrorism, which others have touched on. I understand that for the so-called category 2 tasks, the Minister does not favour federation. I think that such an approach has merits, but if she is...

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Mark Francois: .... As for the level 2 tasks, I understand that the Government have rejected the so-called federation approach of getting a number of different constabularies in a region to work together to combat terrorism. I thought that that had some merit. Is there not the alternative of their working with elements of the Serious Organised Crime Agency to provide a link between constabularies and...

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Mark Francois: ...shall attempt to abide by it. Does my hon. Friend agree with me that when that powerful treaty was put through the House, we accepted it on the basis that it was necessary to fight the war against terror, on which we have stood shoulder to shoulder with our American counterparts? However, practical experience has shown that the US Administration have begun to use the treaty for other...

Police Amalgamations (1 Feb 2006)

Mark Francois: I shall try to be brief. The Essex constabulary has considerable experience of fighting terrorism, not least because, as my right hon. Friend and the Government know, there are special facilities at Stansted. Also, on 7/7, the Essex police provided substantial assistance to the Met. Does my right hon. Friend agree, with respect to colleagues from East Anglia, that the Essex constabulary does...

Police Restructuring (19 Dec 2005)

Mark Francois: ...police are non-political, but if we have 12 regional super-forces, they would inevitably come under stronger political control from the Home Secretary. We had an inkling of that in the debate on terrorism when some chief constables, though thankfully not ours, wrote to MPs to advise us on how to cast our vote. We do not want to go any further down that route. Fifthly, the reforms will be...

Police Restructuring (19 Dec 2005)

Mark Francois: ...-alone option in Chelmsford on Friday, said: "I believe that some of the Protective Services would be best provided by a national agency and not through the strategic force solution—counter terrorism for example." Is that not an important statement from the chief constable of one of the largest forces in the country?

Defence in the United Kingdom (31 Oct 2002)

Mr Mark Francois: ...look again at its defence posture and plans to ensure that we have the right concepts, the right forces and the right capabilities to meet the additional challenges that we face from international terrorism and asymmetric threats (defined as the threat of attack by unconventional methods which would have a disproportionate effect)." In response to the paper, a number of organisations and...

Adjournment (Whitsun) (24 May 2002)

Mr Mark Francois: ...how passionately the hon. Gentleman feels about these matters. Is it not bizarre that, because of the IRA's involvement with FARC and the US Administration's determination to fight a war against terror around the world, the US Administration are now taking a tougher line against Sinn Fein-IRA than the British Government?

11 September (UK Victims) (19 Mar 2002)

Mr Mark Francois: ...to the Prime Minister last week about her case and, not unreasonably, I am still waiting for a reply. As we have heard, Deena's husband Paul worked in the financial markets and was murdered by terrorists on 11 September. According to several eye witnesses, he had helped to evacuate people, many of whom were American citizens, from the stricken towers before he lost his life. He left...

Orders of the Day — Civil Defence (Grant) Bill (28 Nov 2001)

Mr Mark Francois: ...of discussion about the possibility of so-called asymmetric attack on the UK by terrorist groups of the type whose actions people in the United States have had to suffer. In the debate on the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill a few days ago, Ministers took pains to argue that the UK faced a genuine national emergency, "threatening the life of the nation" as a result of events in the...