Results 1-13 of 13 for terrorism speaker:Greg Hands

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Prevent (26 Oct 2009) has video

Greg Hands: If he will assess the value for money of his Department's expenditure on the Prevent strand of its counter-terrorism strategy.

Strategic Framework (FCO) (20 May 2008)

Greg Hands: ...—it is right that the Foreign Office reviews its overall strategic direction, priorities and so on from time to time. I strongly applaud various aspects of the framework, including counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, climate change and conflict zones such as Afghanistan. To digress slightly, the Foreign Office has done particularly well on counter-terrorism in the past six...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Terrorist Groups (27 Jun 2007)

Greg Hands: What recent assessment he has made of the security threat posed by each of the Irish terrorist groups proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Deferred Division: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Greg Hands: ...more powers and expanding its remit, should focus on becoming what he called the 3G Europe, concentrating on global poverty, globalisation and global warming. I would add a fourth G—global terrorism. We should add to that list sovereignty and the paramountcy of Parliament in making UK law. Much has been said today on the EU constitution, and there are real fears that the same treaty...

Written Answers — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Strategy (30 Apr 2007)

Greg Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with officials and other Ministers on the co-ordination of anti-terrorism strategy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Terrorist Assets (1 Mar 2007)

Greg Hands: The Minister announced yesterday in his statement "new safeguards on the payment of state benefits to the households of terror suspects".—[ Official Report, 28 February 2007; Vol. 457, c. 85WS.] He will be aware that I wrote last week to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to call for an urgent investigation into Abu Hamza and his household, and their benefit claims. They have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 Feb 2007)

Greg Hands: The Prime Minister will know that in 2002 Abu Hamza had his assets frozen by the Chancellor, yet the following year was allowed to transfer a flat to his son, who has himself been convicted of terrorist offences. Why, five years later, has that glaring loophole in our anti-terror defences still not been closed?

Abu Hamza (31 Jan 2007)

Greg Hands: ...thousands of pounds in benefits from the general taxpayer and entitled to buy their home from the local authority. Furthermore, Abu Hamza would likely neither be brought before a British court for terror offences—unless the Government relented and allowed intercept evidence to be used in court—nor, crucially, be prevented by the Chancellor's supposedly tough anti-terror...

Abu Hamza (31 Jan 2007)

Greg Hands: ...that "the authorities were aware of this transaction" at the time. Why, then, did it take more than three years to close the loophole? If we had discovered that we were powerless to prevent terrorist transfers, surely the Treasury's reaction should have been, "Let's go get new powers." It should not have taken three years. Further to that, I put a question to the Economic Secretary: is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Strategy (15 Jan 2007)

Greg Hands: What recent discussions he has had with officials and Ministers on co-ordination of the anti-terrorism strategy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Anti-terrorism Strategy (15 Jan 2007)

Greg Hands: ...impact", and that "no one seemed to be in charge". Last month the Home Secretary again identified the problem. He said that we need "a seamless, integrated, driven, politically overseen counter-terrorism strategy". It is 18 months since the July bombings. When will we have a workable strategy?

Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism Bill (30 Jan 2006)

Greg Hands: ...of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions (a) before and (b) after 26 October on which (i) he and (ii) his representatives contacted Hammersmith and Fulham police about the Terrorism Bill; and what form that contact took.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Uzbekistan (2 Nov 2005)

Greg Hands: ...of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he has taken to inquire into the well-being of the Uzbek dissident Saidjahon Zainabitdinov since his detention on 21 May on charges of terrorism.