Results 1-20 of 48 for terrorism speaker:Tobias Ellwood

Intelligence and Security Committee (7 May 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...to the report of one of his predecessors, Baroness Taylor. Back in 2002, she wrote that there remained a huge problem in the comparison between the compensation received by people affected by terrorism attacks in the UK, and that received by those affected by such attacks abroad. Sadly, I lost my brother in the Bali bombing, and the report made clear the double standard: families of those...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: .... The second document that I wish to bring to the House's attention was released today and is called "Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism". Perhaps "Plan" should be added—that is, we should plan for what to do if we invade a Muslim country, because if we do not have a plan when we invade, we leave a vacuum and...

Employment Retention: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (3 Mar 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...to the Minister but perhaps if we had more than an hour and a half to debate these important matters, he would not be under such pressure to answer questions from Back Benchers. On the issue of terrorism, which is the reason why we are debating the order today, I understand from reports in the press that 40 per cent. of the CIA's intelligence services are working in the United Kingdom,...

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: Law and Order (24 Feb 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...market and the potential prosperity of a nation. With insufficient funding, police cannot enforce the law or train to understand the new challenges that we face—for example, cyberfraud and terrorism, neither of which has been mentioned in the debate. Cuts in front-line policing are likely to take place. We have heard that time and again from the constabularies. The reason is the...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Tobias Ellwood: ...Qaeda. Will he admit to the House that al-Qaeda was not in Iraq in any substantial form before March 2003? A question has been put to him about an inquiry; there are huge questions to ask about why terrorism was allowed to grow after we went into the country. Why did we not have a plan for peace after the initial war? That is why the House is asking for an inquiry.

[Mr. Mike Hancock in the Chair] — Victims of Terrorism (Compensation) (29 Oct 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: ...mentioned Lord Brennan's private Member's Bill, which went to some lengths to try to illustrate the problems and difficulties that we face in providing compensation for overseas victims of terrorism. I am grateful for this chance to put on the record my thoughts, both personal and from my party's perspective, because we face a dilemma that needs to be resolved. I pay tribute to the...

Point of Order: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (21 Feb 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: ...for Workington (Tony Cunningham), is listening—that we might have an opportunity to discuss the wider picture and the impact that the order will have as one part of the jigsaw of tackling terrorism in the United Kingdom. The Minister also said that prosecution was the Government's first, second and third priority. Leading on from what my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick...

Point of Order: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (21 Feb 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: I should be grateful if the Minister continued to take interventions, which would allow us to tease out the Government's strategy on countering terrorism, because I understand that we have not had a proper debate. If this is it, I am afraid that one and a half hours does not do the issue justice. To bring him back to my question, he says that he does not have time to talk about what the...

Pakistan (Terrorism) (16 Jan 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: It is a pleasure to begin this important and topical debate on Pakistani-based terrorism. Indeed, considering recent events, there is terrorism not only in Pakistan but in the United Kingdom, as well as in other recent attacks across the globe. Unfortunately, we can now see a common denominator in the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, and those in Madrid and Bali, not to mention the frequent...

Pakistan (Terrorism) (16 Jan 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: ...doing for the past 10 to 15 years. What is relevant is how that impacts on the UK, because sadly a number of the people whom I mentioned earlier are, or were, British citizens. This is home-grown terrorism, about which we were in denial until July 2005, when we suddenly realised that British-born citizens were willing to take their lives for the cause of fundamentalism. Those are the...

Pakistan (Terrorism) (16 Jan 2008)

Tobias Ellwood: .... President Musharraf was prompted by US comments—I think they were from special advisers to the US President—that more needed to be done militarily to assist Pakistan in combating terrorism. Unfortunately, the reply did not suggest that President Musharraf had fully grasped the gravity of the situation. He replied: "Nobody will come here until we ask them...and we haven't...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Pakistan and Kenya (7 Jan 2008) has video

Tobias Ellwood: The Secretary of State talks about combating terrorism, but fails to mention the one thing that links Pakistan to events in Afghanistan and to 9/11, 7/7, Bali and Madrid—the al-Qaeda training camps that are on the Pakistani border. Does he agree that Pakistan should now hold up its hands and say that it cannot contain that 400-mile mountainous border and that international help is...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism: Expenditure (10 Dec 2007)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on combating terrorism in the UK in each of the last five years.

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Tobias Ellwood: ...involved. The backdrop to the debate is the Prime Minister's comment on board HMS Albion on Friday 12 January: "Britain has to choose whether to be on the front line of the global fight against terrorism or to retreat to a peacekeeping role." Perhaps we should mention that choice to our NATO allies. We have committed more than 7,000 troops to Iraq and 5,700 to Afghanistan. Unfortunately,...

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

Tobias Ellwood: ...to do that we would provide financial support direct to the farmer, raise taxes for the Government, cut off the clandestine links that have been established with Pakistan, and remove the link to terrorism, too. Time is short, Mrs. Humble, and it seems so sad as I know that everybody else wants to say so much. In conclusion, we are at a tipping point. We have been in Afghanistan for five...

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Afghanistan (17 Oct 2006)

Tobias Ellwood: ...has no long-term future. Our policy on poppy crops is failing. We have a policy of eradication and replacement, and we cannot separate it from long-term factors even if we intend to remove the terrorism link with Afghanistan. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime opium survey shows that last year was the largest opium crop ever. It represented a 59 per cent. increase on the previous...

Points of Order: Intelligence and Security Committee (Annual Report) (11 Jul 2006)

Tobias Ellwood: ...there is enough co-ordination between agencies. Many agencies were established long ago, some as far back as 1909. The Home Secretary mentioned MI5, which answers to him along with the joint terrorism analysis centre, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and many police operations. But MI6 and GCHQ answer to the Foreign Secretary, and the Secretary of State for Defence is responsible for the...

7 July London Bombings (3 Jul 2006)

Tobias Ellwood: ...involved in the Sharm el Sheikh tragedy. We did not get any compensation whatsoever. We did not get any insurance payment whatsoever. Why? Because insurance companies do not cover international terrorism abroad, and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority does not operate outside UK jurisdiction. Will the Minister please review the situation? We see what other countries do. They now...

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Relief Fund (16 May 2006)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State forthe Home Department whether the Government's£1 million endowment to the new Terrorism Relief Fund may be spent on those affected by terrorism before the establishment of the fund.

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (18 Apr 2006)

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when details of the operation of the charitable fund to help British victims of terrorism abroad will be announced.