Results 1-20 of 34 for terrorism speaker:Nicholas Clegg

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Nicholas Clegg: ...Minister and the Defence Secretary giving different justifications for the war. We on the Liberal Democrat Benches support the Afghan mission to stabilise Afghanistan and to reduce the threat of terrorism to British citizens. However, we need to be very clear about the limits of what we can achieve. Military action may be able to contain problems but not resolve them. We have learned some...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan and Pakistan (29 Apr 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ..., given our historical relationship with Pakistan and the large Pakistani community here in Britain, so does the Prime Minister accept that his rather clunking remarks at the height of a counter-terrorism operation that did not even lead to any charges being brought were the perfect example of how to raise anxieties both within Pakistan and in communities in Britain?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...less. This is about defending the simple principle that anyone wanting to unearth information about the way in which we are governed by the Government of the day should not live in fear of the anti-terror police arriving on their doorstep. This is not, and should not be, an argument between parliamentarians. It is an argument on behalf of the public to ensure that every citizen has the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 May 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...serviceman who tragically lost his life in Afghanistan. I am sure that the whole House agrees that a failure of our mission in Afghanistan would be catastrophic and would lead to an increase in terrorism, more hard drugs on the streets of our towns and cities, instability in the region and more suffering for the Afghans. Will the Prime Minister accept that perhaps more could be done to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...will be tackled. I hope that more time will be made available to the House to examine the document in greater detail. Does the Prime Minister agree that many of the threats he has enumerated—terrorism, climate change, cross-border crime—cannot be dealt with by the United Kingdom on its own, and, indispensably, we can deal with them only as full and committed members of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Chilcot Report (6 Feb 2008)

Nicholas Clegg: ...with so many other jurisdictions around the world. That is part of our wider belief that we can and should do more to strengthen our judicial system so that there are more prosecutions in anti-terror cases. I welcome the Prime Minister's emphasis on a cross-party approach on this issue; I regret that there is not that emphasis on other important issues in the anti-terrorism...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...legislation restricting the right to protest in Parliament—I could go on. I will send the right hon. Gentleman a list. Having said all that, we must be mindful of the fact that eight counter-terrorism Bills and six immigration Bills have already been introduced, so the fact that a new counter-terrorism Bill and immigration Bill are to be introduced does not suggest that the habits of...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...indulging in the fantasy notion that we can somehow turn the mass movement of people across the world's borders on and off like a tap. Quite simply, our country—on this issue, and on counter-terrorism—deserves better.

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search: Arrests (16 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will commission a study of the final outcomes of arrests that follow stop and searches under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (10 Jul 2007) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...forces in Afghanistan, why is the move to proscribe those two organisations only taking place now? All those events were well known months and years ago and are explicit, overt acts of horrific terrorism. I simply do not understand why there appears to have been such a time lag between those well-documented events and the move to proscribe the organisations. Perhaps the Minister can shed...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (10 Jul 2007) has video

Nicholas Clegg: We support the disapplication, if that is the word, of section 25 of the Terrorism Act 2006 and I can assure the House that we will not seek to divide it on the order. It is a matter of record that notwithstanding our very serious reservations about extending the period during which police can detain suspects without charge from 14 to 28 days, we accepted the case at the time. Recent...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2) Bill: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (10 Jul 2007) has video

Nicholas Clegg: ...available in court, allowing post-charge questioning, developing the practice of plea bargaining with the aim of gaining informants from among those who operate on the penumbra or margins of terrorist plots—plea bargaining is already used in serious organised crime cases, and I believe it could be used more in terror cases—and considering the so-called threshold test deployed...

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search: Forms (10 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what regulations or guidance there is on the design of forms issued by police forces to people who are stopped and searched under counter-terror legislation.

Business of the House: Counter-Terrorism (7 Jun 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...scope for us to introduce other proposals and ideas that are not in his statement? For instance, we could explore the use of plea-bargaining procedures to encourage informants on the periphery of terror plots to provide more information, and we could look at the threshold test used by the Crown Prosecution Service when bringing charges in terror cases. Will he confirm that we will be able...

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search: Terrorism (16 Apr 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 557W, on stop and search: terrorism, how many of those searched in each category were subsequently charged with (a) terrorism-related offences and (b) other offences.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Home Office Restructuring (29 Mar 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...—than a public inquiry? Can the Home Secretary explain what role will be left for the Cabinet Office? The Cabinet Office plays a crucial role in co-ordinating information concerning our anti-terror strategy. The British public rightly expect the Prime Minister, not an aggrandised Home Secretary, to take the lead in setting our anti-terror strategy. Can he explain why the Cabinet...

Points of Order: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (22 Feb 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: On the day that the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 came into force, 11 March 2005, the Prime Minister said that "there will be every opportunity for people...to put forward amendments to make arguments about the legislation without putting at risk the entirety of that legislation". We had hoped that today would provide that opportunity because we believe that the control order regime is,...

Points of Order: Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (22 Feb 2007)

Nicholas Clegg: ...has said in public, for example on a recent visit to the United States to see the use of intercept evidence there, that it could be a powerful tool in our common struggle against the contemporary terror threat. I hope that the Government will follow up their attempts to emulate the practices of France, the US and others, who find our reticence on this point very difficult to comprehend....

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...he used the word "leadership" in his speech more frequently than any other. He certainly appeared to be trying to burnish his leadership credentials. We have the sixth immigration Bill, the eighth terrorism Bill and the 24th criminal justice Bill, all adding to the pile of 3,000 or more criminal offences that this Government have shoved on to the statute book. That is two new offences for...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Nicholas Clegg: ...effective approach must be as ferocious in defending traditional British liberties and rights as it is in protecting our collective security. That brings me on to the all-important issue of anti-terror legislation. I ask the Home Secretary to do just two things. First, it is fruitless to play politics with terror, either across the Floor of the House or, worse still, in the fin-de-regime...