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Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 5): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6) — [6th Allotted Day] (25 Feb 2008)

Andrew Mitchell: ..., on which they were elected, to hold a referendum, only to have those early sparks of integrity and independence snuffed out by the brute force of the Government Whips Office. Indeed, such is the terror induced by the Chief Whip, the right hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Hoon), that it is said that younger members of the Labour party fear to walk past the door to his office, in much the...

Bill Presented: Darfur (5 Jun 2007)

Andrew Mitchell: ...done. It is pointed out that we would require AWACS aircraft. That is true, but if we could find them to patrol the skies above the Athens Olympics, surely we can find them to protect those who live in terror in Darfur. Thirdly, there is the issue of the additional peacemakers who are required in Chad and the Central African Republic. The Secretary of State will recall that in February the...

Darfur (28 Nov 2006)

Andrew Mitchell: ...staggered that the British government, with full knowledge of his role, arranged for him to have medical treatment in British hospitals. Perhaps he is offering tit-bits of information on our war on terror but our policy should be to stop terror wherever it happens. Around 300,000 people have been deliberately killed as a result of his policies and two million displaced in ruthless...

Africa (Poverty) (30 Jun 2005)

Andrew Mitchell: ...the democratic process. I hope that he will at least concede that things are not going entirely as he had hoped. African Governments have remained resolutely silent over the policies of state terrorism exercised by President Mugabe in Zimbabwe, except, of course, for President Mkapa of Tanzania, who is a member of the Commission for Africa and who earlier this year in a BBC interview...

Trade Marks Act 1994 (c. 26) (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ... the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly), who has great specialist knowledge not only as a constituency Member of Parliament but as a shadow Minister on the important subject of animal rights terrorism, genuinely managed to influence the Minister to make several changes and amendments, for which we are extremely grateful to her. My hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison),...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: New Clause 6 — Interception of communications (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...every other country, including the US, allows the use of intercept evidence in court. Such evidence is deployed in those countries with significant success in cases involving organised crime and terrorism. Independent reports by Lords Lloyd and Newton, and 1999's consultation paper on the intercept of communications, recommended the use of intercept material as evidence. The use of such...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: New Clause 6 — Interception of communications (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...prosecution to use intercept evidence. It would simply allow the submission of intercept evidence in court and stand on a par with what is available to other agencies dealing with serious crime and terrorism. What is more, there are already eclectic and disparate cases in which intercept evidence is used in criminal courts, albeit as an exception to the general rule, and there has not been...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: New Clause 6 — Interception of communications (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...already mentioned, of ourselves and southern Ireland. As I said in Committee, Lord Lloyd of Berwick explained foreign countries' position on the use of intercept evidence in his inquiry into anti-terrorism legislation, which was published in 1996: "The first and most obvious argument is that evidence of intercepted material is admissible to prove guilt in each of the countries which I have...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: New Clause 6 — Interception of communications (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...most important—sophisticated investigative tools available to them in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of many types of serious crimes. This tool has been critical in fighting terrorism, organised crime, kidnapping, drug trafficking, public corruption, fraud, and violent crime, and in saving numerous innocent lives. In many of those cases, the criminal activity under...

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (3 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...the importance of the issue. It has been widely discussed outside the House, but we are not to have time to discuss it in the House. The next subject of the knife is our debate on animal rights terrorism—a matter of great importance on which my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) has produced much good work. During our constructive debates in Committee, he won some...

Police (2 Feb 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...of them. We are told that £277 million will be available through the crime fighting fund. There will be nearly £61 million for the Metropolitan police and £35 million for other forces for counter-terrorism; £50 million for basic command unit funds; £210 million for the safer and stronger communities fund, which is clearly a breach of trades description legislation,...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill: New Clause 12 - Interception of communications (No. 4) (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...the use of intercept evidence, and I asked him to recall the review of both Houses, published on 18 December 2003, that was carried out by a very senior committee of Privy Councillors into the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. That committee argued unanimously that intercept evidence should be permissible in British courts. In their response, the Government promised that they...

Business of the House (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: Does the Leader of the House recall the Committee composed of senior Privy Councillors of all parties and from both Houses that reported on the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 in a document published on 18 December 2003? It unanimously concluded that intercept evidence should be permissible in British courts. Does he further recall that the Government promised to respond to that...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill: Clause 23 - Activities in Scotland in relation to crime (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...be required when working over international borders, but SOCA should be able to work in Scotland without having to jump through bureaucratic hoops. To those who have studied the difficulty in defeating terrorism in Ireland because of the arrangements on the border between southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, that an easy point to assert. If SOCA is liaising adequately with the Scottish...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill (7 Dec 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...will put our fears to rest about the danger of a leadership vacuum as a result of the brightest and the best being recruited to SOCA. We shall also want to be satisfied that SOCA, by dealing not with terrorism—we understand that argument—but with level 2 crime, including prostitution, drugs and people smuggling, will find a natural position between other law enforcement...

Written Answers — Home Department: Police Paperwork (17 Nov 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the evidence of the Minister for Crime Reduction, Policing, Community Safety and Counter-Terrorism to the Home Affairs Select Committee of 26 October, if he will list the items of police paperwork which have been reduced since 1997.

European Council/Libya (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: Will the Prime Minister bear it in mind that many of us who strongly support his stand on terrorism and on giving the opportunity of democracy to the people of Iraq are concerned that he has set his face so firmly at this point against a referendum on the European constitution, although the issues are potentially far more significant than anything entailed in the Maastricht treaty, with the...

International Affairs (27 Nov 2003)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...rather grandiloquently as the Foreign Office's 10-year strategy for the world, which is to be published shortly. I have no doubt whatever that right at the top of his agenda must be the war on terror. We have only to hear the words of the lady who is responsible for our security services and of the chief of police of the Met to understand that the war on terror is critical to our future....

Business of the House (6 Dec 2001)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: Has the Leader of the House had a chance during his busy week to read the report of the excellent debate in the other place on clause 110 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill? In the work that the Modernisation Committee is doing, will he bear in mind that that clause, which will have a fundamental effect on British criminal law, was not even discussed under the terms of the...

Proceeds of Crime Bill (30 Oct 2001)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...three points to make, and I hope that they will be helpful. The first relates loosely to clause 324, which deals with the offence of failing to disclose. Previously, the terms applied to drugs and terrorism offences, but they are now to apply to money laundering. My understanding is that if a relatively junior employee of, for example, a finance house turns out to be a rotten apple and is...