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HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Second sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. Thanks to colleagues from Northern Ireland for joining us. Could you outline your key concerns about the provisions…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q I understand that. I have some sympathy with the Government on statutory renewal being on the basis of new evidence of terrorism, but I have some concerns about what is called,…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q One could argue that that is exactly what the whole thrust of the Bill is doing in relation to the standard of proof. When relocation orders were used before, one in six were…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. Thank you, Mr Hall, for your comprehensive notes and the briefing that you provided to the Opposition in advance…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q Given that there has been no example of where a TPIM has been unable to proceed on the basis of the current standard of proof, would you, if the Bill passes, look very carefully…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Second sitting)Q That is very useful. Your point about the entitlement of every citizen of the UK, regardless of what part of the UK they are in, to have protection from terrorism is important.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)The measures contained in the Bill: the amendments to the current operation of TPIMs, and provisions on sentencing. Is that what counter-terrorism policing in the UK feels it…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think you will require additional resources in order to implement the measures that are proposed in the Bill? Tim Jacques: As you have seen, the number of TPIMs is very…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Second sitting)Q The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland relies very heavily on co-operation between the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Garda Síochána. Those two systems in…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q Is it your understanding, looking at the package of measures being introduced, that you could conceivably have someone who has been convicted of a terrorism offence being free…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Assistant Chief Constable Jacques—and not just for you and your colleagues’ work now. As a north-west MP, I am particularly proud of your distinguished service in…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q But you are keen for it to progress speedily and get it done and out of the way. Tim Jacques: It would be helpful if the review came to an end. Whether that will finish the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q I understand. Thank you. Finally, the Bill also contains a measure to remove the statutory deadline for the reporting of the Prevent review. The review was announced last…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (First sitting)Q May I press you a little? You say that the measures in the Bill will make the police’s job easier and will make people safer. When the police or the security services say that,…25 Jun 2020HANSARD Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]It is a pleasure to close this debate for the Opposition with you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to follow my good friend, the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon).…22 Jun 2020HANSARD Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) in particular, and to close this debate on behalf of the Opposition. I think this has been a…09 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: QuarantineScientists say that the quarantine introduced today has come too late. The police say it is unenforceable. The tourism and aviation industry say that it will ruin them, and the…08 Jun 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillI will, of course.03 Mar 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman very much not just for his words in the Chamber today, but for the co-operation we have had over the last three or four years in continuing to ensure…03 Mar 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillPeople in places like St Helens—good, decent, honest, hard-working people—expect us in this place to do what is right by them, to work in the national interest and to do together…03 Mar 2020