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• Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]: Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland) 19 Mar 1997

  I beg to move, That the draft Northern Ireland (Emergency and Prevention of Terrorism Provisions) (Continuance) Order 1997, which was laid before this House on 10th March, be approved. The draft order will continue in force for 12 months, from 16 June, the temporary provisions of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996. The Act comprises a range of provisions, almost all of them...

• Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]: Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland) 19 Mar 1997

  I am grateful for those remarks. I can always count on my right hon.—perhaps I should add "and learned"—Friend to give sharp lectures when they are appropriate and needed. Under cover of darkness, the terrorists continued their nightly punishment attacks, and behind the scenes they continued to train, to organise and to plan more evil. Then, on 7 October, the provisional IRA detonated...

• Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]: Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland) 19 Mar 1997

  I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is right. I understand the special interest that he espouses in connection with the skills of our armed forces serving in Northern Ireland. Special provisions of the kind contained in the Emergency Provisions Act have been in place in Northern Ireland since the early 1970s. Successive Governments have felt them necessary, and successive Parliaments have...

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Former MP for Westminster North

Entered the House of Commons on 3 May 1979 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 8 April 1997 — General election

Also represented Cities of London and Westminster Paddington

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Future MPs in this constituency

• Karen Buck