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Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

Charles Walker: ..., and we cannot afford for that to happen at the moment, with the Olympics just around the corner, in a little over three years' time, and the daily threat posed by terrorists. As regards counter-terrorism and legislation on counter-terrorism, I remain concerned about the erosion of civil liberties. Our democracy, which we have treasured over the past 400 years, has made this country what...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (24 Apr 2007)

Charles Walker: ...Governments that might lean on clinicians. Before the Minister dismisses my concerns, let me say that I do not think that anybody in the room thought three years ago that the prevention of terrorism legislation would be used haul off from the Cenotaph a woman reading the names of soldiers fallen in Iraq.

Orders of the Day: Schedule 14 — Repeals (24 Oct 2006)

Charles Walker: I hope that the Minister accepts that it was not my intention in my brief speech to diminish organised crime. Clearly, people trafficking, international terrorism and drug dealing are hugely important. Is the Home Office looking at a different formula for tackling those issues beyond the idea of merging police forces? It may be slightly off the point, but I would grateful if the Minister...

Counterfeit Medicines (26 Jan 2006)

Charles Walker: ...counterfeiting are huge and the risks lower than those involved in trafficking narcotics. Counterfeiting is linked to all forms of organised crime such as money laundering, drug trafficking, terrorism and other illegal activities. Distribution channels mirror those of the illegal drugs trade, and in many developing countries drugs often disappear into a black hole. Corruption is rife....