Results 1-9 of 9 for terrorism speaker:Mary Creagh

Business of the House (5 Feb 2009) has video

Mary Creagh: ..., which gritted 1,400 km of snow-covered roads, but it is clear from the experiences of other hon. Members that that was not the case across the country. We have civil contingency plans for terror attacks and floods, but when we get three inches of snow, the buses stop working, the teachers stay at home, and Parliament goes home early. Many people do not get paid if they do not go to work....

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: European Constitution (1 May 2007)

Mary Creagh: ...from both sides of the House for this constitutional referendum? May I say how pleased I am that there will not be one? If we are to join together in Europe to tackle the challenges of migration, terrorism, immigration, threats to public health and climate change, we need to work together incrementally to do so. I ask my right hon. Friend not to take any lessons from Conservative Members,...

Royal Assent: Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (20 Mar 2007)

Mary Creagh: ...physical and psychological consequences. More than half of them had symptom levels suggesting post-traumatic stress disorder—levels that we normally see in people who have suffered extreme terror or extremely violent events. They suffered headaches, fatigue, dizziness or memory loss equivalent to what the most acute 10 per cent. of sufferers in the population experience. One...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (10 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: ...(Mr. Carmichael) about clauses 6 and 8 and those of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) about clause 6 especially. The aspect that jumped out at me was the definition of training for terrorism. In the United States, people who had trained the 9/11 bombers had suspicions that the training would be used for nefarious purposes and had alerted the police, although the intelligence...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (10 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: ...if that were ever to happen again. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) is no longer in the Chamber. I am sorry that he cannot hear me say that I agree with him: terrorism is not new. I grew up in Coventry in the 1970s and 1980s. My parents were Irish—my mother from the north, my father from the south. We were part of a Catholic community. Our parish priest...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (10 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: ...we have forgotten the nature and scale of what we are dealing with. I feel that there is a Pollyanna optimism that everything will turn out well, or a sort of defeatism that says that we have had terrorism before and we will have it in the future. I do not want to go back to Wakefield and tell people that I did not do my best to stop terrorism. I am an optimist, too. I believe in the...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (10 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that, when we were dealing with the threat of IRA terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, terrorists did not have mobile phones, the internet was in its infancy and in most cases the terrorists spoke the same language as us? There were none of the interpretation and translation issues that we find in the current threat.

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (10 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: ...his report on the Bill, in which he discusses clause 22. He also describes his own inquiries and processes as an independent reviewer. He is the person whom the House has charged with reviewing the Terrorism Bill. Why is his opinion not important, and why does the hon. Gentleman think that he and his party are in a better position than the independent reviewer appointed by the Government...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 1 — Encouragement of terrorism (9 Nov 2005)

Mary Creagh: Surely there is a difference between trying to understand the causes of terrorism—we must include journalists, academics and politicians and our statements on the Floor of the House in that—and encouraging it. Surely understanding is a legitimate defence. Understanding is nothing to do with encouraging. I fail to understand how my hon. and learned Friend can make that elision.