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Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

Debates on delegated legislation on Monday, 1 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hanson of Flint. The answering member was Crispin Blunt.
Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2010. Debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on division (206 to 85).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

506 c721-49 

Session

2009-10

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005
Thursday, 10 March 2005
Public acts
Counter-terrorism policy and human rights (sixteenth report): Annual renewal of control orders legislation 2010. Human Rights Joint Select Committee ninth report with formal minutes, evidence (not printed separately) and appendices.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Keith Vaz | 506 c744 (Link to this contribution) There were some absconds before June 2007, however, and the point is that if one's policy involves a...
Diane Abbott | 506 c745 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate and put on the record my opposit...

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Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c744 (Link to this contribution) There have been no absconds since June 2007, and I assure my right hon. Friend that we take extremel...
John McDonnell | 506 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the Minister has waived his opportunity to respond. I want briefly to put a few point...
David Winnick | 506 c745 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend the Minister wants five minutes to reply, but in order to concentra...
Diane Abbott | 506 c745-6 (Link to this contribution) Control orders, secret evidence, the whole debate about extraordinary rendition—all these add up to ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c747 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the comments of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and those of the hon. Member for R...
David Winnick | 506 c726 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way; indeed, it would be horri...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c726-7 (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons why we have an annual debate on these orders is so that we can assess annually wh...
Lembit Opik | 506 c725 (Link to this contribution) I promise not to intervene on the Minister again, but I remind him that two of my constituents were ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) I am unclear whether the hon. Gentleman's constituents were subject to potential control orders, but...
David Heath | 506 c725 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is helping the debate by allowing these interv...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c725 (Link to this contribution) Let me remind the hon. Gentleman that it is not only the Executive: all these orders have to be judi...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c725 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to both colleagues, but then I would like to make some progress, because I want the...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c727 (Link to this contribution) Relocation is an important issue. I accept and understand that that causes difficulties. The key iss...
John McDonnell | 506 c727 (Link to this contribution) May I just ask a simple question? Why has relocation been increasingly used as part of the control o...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c728-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to begin by sharing the Minister's analysis that there can be no complacency about the nature...
Jeremy Corbyn | 506 c729 (Link to this contribution) I recognise what the hon. Gentleman is saying about the atmosphere in which we vote and the informat...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I recognise that, and we warned of that from this Dispatch Box when the Prevention of Terrorism...
Harry Cohen | 506 c727 (Link to this contribution) I was not clear about the point that the Minister was making before my hon. Friend's intervention. I...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c728 (Link to this contribution) There is an honest disagreement between us, but I believe that this regime meets the human rights ob...
David Davis | 506 c730 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has talked about the problems of high principle with this issue and he is now d...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c730 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for generously promoting me to the Privy Council, which is, of...
Chris Huhne | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) The success rate of prosecution for terrorist offences is greater than 80 per cent., yet the DPP can...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) I can only repeat that when there is sufficient evidence, we will prosecute. As I have said, there h...
Jeremy Corbyn | 506 c722 (Link to this contribution) I am not guilty of chuntering in the background; I have been listening intently to what the Minister...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) That might be a solution, if there were sufficient evidence. If there were sufficient evidence, we w...
Chris Huhne | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) Surely it is exactly that successful record on prosecutions for terrorist offences that calls into q...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c722 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend feels that he may not be able to support these measures with conviction. ...
Diane Abbott | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) Is that not a fundamental contradiction? My right hon. Friend asserts that these people pose a threa...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c725 (Link to this contribution) We are constantly monitoring the impact on community confidence of a range of Government actions. Th...
Lynne Jones | 506 c724 (Link to this contribution) If it really is not possible to prosecute such people—although the use of intercept evidence ought t...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c724 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised three issues. We are, in fact, considering intercept evidence. My hon. Fri...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c724 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend knows, following the case of AF v. the Secretary of State for the Home Depar...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c724 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that a large proportion of the costs of control orders to date have been spent ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c724 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to spend the next hour and a half discussing these matters, but I am conscious that the d...
Jeremy Corbyn | 506 c724-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way again. He has been generous, but I think that this is an importa...
Keith Vaz | 506 c744 (Link to this contribution) I shall conclude, because my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington is anxiou...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c744 (Link to this contribution) It is a double improbability—60 per cent. times the probability of the Conservatives winning the gen...
Keith Vaz | 506 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) This is a very serious debate dealing with an important aspect of policy. I would have hoped that mo...
Chris Huhne | 506 c740-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I will attempt to be brief. I am always pleased to follow the hon....
Speaker | 506 c740 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that this debate is due to finish at 8.45, and t...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c734 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we might get that news now.
Crispin Blunt | 506 c731-3 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman can restrain himself, I shall now explain the circumstances in which we propos...
Chris Huhne | 506 c730-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making the point that he needs time to assess these matters, but may I point o...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c734 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister well knows, there are far wider arguments than those regarding control orders about ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c734 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that there is an ongoing review following the Privy Council's examinati...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c735-8 (Link to this contribution) This is our fifth debate on control order renewal. There is a risk of temporary measures becoming pe...
Lynne Jones | 506 c738 (Link to this contribution) Last November, a letter from my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terro...
David Davis | 506 c734 (Link to this contribution) May I ask my hon. Friend to look again at the public dimension of the intercept review? What was sai...
Crispin Blunt | 506 c734-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for drawing my attention to that point. It is appropriate to r...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c738 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am. We know that in relation to the majority of control orders, the procedure is not correct ...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c738 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend let me finish the point? It is a matter of great disagreement between us. ...
John McDonnell | 506 c738 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the Lord President of the UK Supreme Court could have put it more succinctly:""A...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c739 (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by the comments in my letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Bi...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c739 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes his point. I simply say that in every case that has been appealed so far,...
David Davis | 506 c739 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good legal case; he is supported by the judges and the Government are not...
Andrew Dismore | 506 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) I agree. That is the point I made earlier when I was talking about the impact on families. The way t...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c721 (Link to this contribution) The purpose of the order is to renew the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. Sections 1 to 9 of this A...
Speaker | 506 c721 (Link to this contribution) Will hon. Members please leave quickly and quietly, without having conversations that would be more ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c721 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 t...
Lembit Opik | 506 c722 (Link to this contribution) I worked on the Northern Ireland brief for a decade, and every year I heard a justification for temp...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c721-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I know that he takes a personal interest i...
Tobias Ellwood | 506 c721 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that concerns remain about the financial support provided to victims of t...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c722 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way to my hon. Friends, if they wish to contribute rather than chuntering in the...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c722 (Link to this contribution) We tabled the motion because there remains a serious terrorist threat to this country, and we believ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) We have to ensure that we examine how we comply with those judgments. We supply information relating...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 506 c723 (Link to this contribution) We shall be debating a range of judgments this evening. The House must decide whether it supports th...

Subjects

Crime prevention
Detainees
Costs
Human rights
Prosecutions
Pre-trial procedures
Terrorism
Surveillance
Security
Anti-terrorism control orders

Legislation

Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2010

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