Results 1-20 of 72 for terrorism speaker:Ben Wallace

Written Answers — Justice: National Offender Management Service (1 Sep 2009)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to paragraph 9.21 of the UK Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, Cm 7457, how many Muslim chaplains have received training from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS); where they are based; what estimate he has made of the size of the population they serve; what other NOMS staff have received further such training; where...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Islam (15 Jul 2009)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to paragraph 9.21 of the UK Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, Cm 7547, what projects his Department is supporting with universities to work with Muslim scholars, leaders and academics on contextualising Islam in Britain; and which universities, scholars and academics are involved.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Islam: Higher Education (15 Jul 2009)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to paragraph 9.21 of the UK Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, Cm 7457, how much of the £1 million which the Higher Education Funding Council for England has committed for work on the gaps in Islamic studies teaching and research has been allocated; and to what projects.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Students: Radicalism (15 Jul 2009)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to paragraph 9.22 of the UK Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, Cm 7457, what the highest priority establishments are which his Department is targeting to reduce the risk of radicalisation on campus.

[Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair] — Global Security (Iran) (9 Jul 2009)

Ben Wallace: ...challenge, and we must recognise it. The problem is the ticking time bomb of the nuclear clock. Without the nuclear worry, we could let things play their course. We could take steps to ensure that terrorism was not exported and so on. Unfortunately, the nuclear issue creates urgency. We are in a serious and difficult place. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) said that...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Overseas Aid: Terrorism (26 Jun 2009)

Ben Wallace: ...Affairs with reference to Part 2, section 8, page 61 of the Government document, Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare, published in March 2009, which countries have been assessed for counter-terrorism capacity; what funding has been provided to which countries under this initiative to date; how much his Department has budgeted for the project in the next three years; from what sources such...

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

Ben Wallace: ...gives many rights, and protects human rights for all, but that the problem is that the present regime especially has tried to step outside the constitution and veto those rights, continually using terrorism and national security as an excuse? Does he agree that one thing that the west should do is urge Iran to stick to its constitution and stop it making exemptions in its laws under the...

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

Ben Wallace: ...Taliban commanders whose day jobs are as drugs barons. However, when our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are killed by devices incorporating Iranian components, we rightly feel that Iran exports terrorism. On the nuclear issue, Iran suspended enrichment in 2004 in the hope that the United States would engage, but unfortunately it was snubbed. Iran might ask why it should do it again....

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

Ben Wallace: If the hon. Gentleman looks at the terrorism legislation of 2000, he will know that many of the court rulings are based on the legislation on proscribing an organisation. I think that proscribing is flawed. United States legislation is allowed to take on board whether the organisation still has the intent to cause acts of terror. Given that most of the leadership of the MEK and PMOI has not...

Written Answers — Home Department: Counter Terrorism Command (24 Nov 2008)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of Special Branch SO12 transferred to Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) (a) at the time SO15 was set up and (b) since that time.

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Counter-Terror Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

Ben Wallace: ...or is in dispute with, so I will look back at Hansard and use his speech as a reference. I shall not prolong my speech; I simply want to raise some of my concerns about the Government's counter-terrorism strategy and some of the issues that have presented themselves to me over the last three years as I have made contact and visited certain locations involved in it. It is right to remind...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Counter-Terror Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

Ben Wallace: ...the Government; I am trying to highlight the challenges that they face. What is important is that the process does not result in fragmented forces. Each force and each special branch or counter-terrorism office will do some things differently, and it is important that we are quick off the mark in spreading best practice throughout those offices and among police officers to ensure that we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: National Identity Register (4 Jun 2008) has video

Ben Wallace: The Government have constantly said that the ID card scheme would help to protect Scotland from the threat of terrorism. The Anglo-Irish treaty in 1921 will mean that Irish citizens will not be required to have an ID card, and the Government's legislation will mean that foreigners who stay for three months or less in Scotland will not have to have one either. Do not these foreign exemptions,...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Ben Wallace: ...Member for Newark, who brings with him extensive experience. It is wrong to hide our experience on the Committee. Not only did my hon. Friend the Member for Newark have extensive time in counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland, but my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham, as a former SAS and Grenadier Guards officer, has first-hand knowledge of violence, terrorism and warfare. I myself spent...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Ben Wallace: The Minister implied that I had perhaps abused some of the powers fighting terrorism.

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Ben Wallace: ...to the matter. I am not arguing from the human rights point of view or that of the balance of law in the Executive. I argue not lightly, but because I have first-hand experience of combating terrorism and meeting terrorists. At the age of 20, I arrested my first active service unit, and not many hon. Members can lay claim to that. One of the charges that we hear from a number of Labour...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Ben Wallace: ...indeed, if important intelligence comes to light and we need to act in the short term. Those powers already exist and to mix the two is to mislead the public about why we want such powers. Counter-terrorism works very much as it does with organised crime. Intelligence is received, it is acted on and perhaps surveillance is put in place. From that surveillance, an arrest or a search might...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 (29 Apr 2008)

Ben Wallace: Given that the warrant itself covers the reasonable suspicion, why are we producing more and more tests within that search itself. Surely for all crimes, whether it is terrorism or not, if there is reasonable suspicion to search a property, what is wrong with getting the trucks in and going through everything?

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill (24 Apr 2008)

Ben Wallace: That troubles me, because in your earlier answers, Minister, you said that there is no evidence to suggest that the bulk of the counter-terrorism legislation that has been introduced by the Government has had an effect on radicalisation; that there has been a growth in it. Clearly, if there are more people being attracted to extreme forms of Islam and there are more plots—some of which,...

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Further written evidence to be reported to the House (24 Apr 2008)

Ben Wallace: Do you not think it very spurious and somewhat naive for the Government to try to connect days to risk solutions? For example, “If we had 14 days, we would get most of the terror plots. If we had 28, we would get nearly all of them.” They want to go further and further. It shows a complete naivety about good counter-terrorism practice, which is not just about days. You can never...