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HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsThe hon. Member is right about the chilling effect of these arrests, which also underline the nature of the threat not being specific to any one part of the country. He presses me…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am grateful to my hon. Friend because he raises an important point about cyber-attacks, which we face, along with countries around the world. I hope he knows that the Home…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsMay I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question and for the work he did as Prime Minister? He knows better than most the extraordinary capabilities that the men and women…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his work in this area. He is absolutely right to make the point about the grave threat. I hope that he will have seen the suite of new measures…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the long-standing experience he brings to the House. He will understand, for the reasons that I have outlined, that there are strict…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsMy hon. Friend makes a powerful and important point. He is absolutely right that the Government will never drop their guard to the threats that we undoubtedly face in countering…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI thank the hon. Lady for, as is always the case, the very sensible and reasonable way in which she has phrased her questions. I am always available to discuss these matters in…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsMy hon. Friend raises a very important point, and I can give him the assurances he seeks. The Government have been very carefully considering the matter of transnational…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI thank the shadow Minister for the sensible, reasonable and constructive tone of his response. He is absolutely right to draw the House’s attention to the tragic death of Lee…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsThe right hon. Gentleman makes a sage point, as he always does, and he is absolutely right. The UK has an incredibly important relationship with the United States, and it is a…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI see the Foreign Office Minister nodding. I am keen to work closely with the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) and draw on his experience in this area, and…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsThat is precisely why I referenced the Prime Minister’s comments about the importance of border security, and border security being national security, and why I said that the Home…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am looking forward—if that is the right way to describe it—to giving evidence to my hon. Friend’s Committee in the near future. As I said to my hon. Friend the Member for…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am always grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the experience that he brings on these important matters. He is right to say that this was a significant operation that…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsLet me respond to the hon. Member in this way: as I have said previously, while there are certain measures we could put in place in this country, and of course we will, it is…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for the work she does as Chair of the Select Committee. FIRS is an important measure, which we inherited from the previous Government, from…06 May 2025HANSARDCounter Terrorism Policing: ArrestsI pay tribute to the hon. Member for his service in our armed forces before coming to this House. I hope that, in part because of that background, he will understand that the one…06 May 2025HANSARDCivil Recovery Cost ProtectionsIn December 2024, the Government published and laid before Parliament a report on the Government’s review on introducing costs protections in civil recovery proceedings in the…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Irish Republican Alleged IncitementMy hon. Friend made two really important points. I completely agree with his remarks at the beginning of his question. He is also absolutely right to raise concerns about the…29 Apr 2025HANSARD Irish Republican Alleged IncitementThe police and the Crown Prosecution Service have a difficult job to do in general terms, and I am determined not to make it more difficult in these circumstances. The hon. and…29 Apr 2025