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Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Schools: Firearms (4 Feb 2008)

Jim Knight: ...schools which encourages and helps them develop emergency planning and response measures against floods and fire; it also provides links to other Government sources of advice on, for example, anti-terrorism. Schools can build on such measures for dealing with large-scale evacuation, on which we contributed to Cabinet Office guidelines, and with other contingencies. We have also produced,...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Jim Knight: ...of such a control room? Is there some merit in having two control rooms in a region, to ensure that there is a back-up facility in the event of one suffering an infrastructure attack such as cyber-terrorism?

Defence in the World (17 Oct 2002)

Mr Jim Knight: Any debate on this subject must address the twin threats of international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The attacks of 11 September, and now in Bali, have shown the deadly and ruthless nature of the threat that we must defend against. Despite the success of the action in Afghanistan in removing al-Qaeda's command, control and training, it is clear that dangerous cells remain...

Orders of the Day — Civil Defence (Grant) Bill: New Clause 1 — Report on civil defence review (28 Jan 2002)

Mr Jim Knight: ...in the hon. Gentleman's argument? The implications of 11 September for emergency planning were profound. Some of the assumptions that underpin such planning may have shifted and the threat of terrorism may have upped the ante, so we need to act quickly. It is right to close loopholes and undergo reviews, and we may want to consider other issues in the future, but to argue that we should...