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HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsNone of us can forget the horrendous scenes of the Rwandan genocide 25 years ago. My colleague the Minister for Africa visited Rwanda only this week to share in the international…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsI dispute the picture the hon. Gentleman is painting about the Government’s and Parliament’s commitment to Rwanda. Plenty of friends of Rwanda who care about the consequences of…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsI understand the hon. Lady’s point. Can she communicate to her Rwandan community that the Government spent £3 million trying to extradite those people so they could face justice…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsPerhaps I can correct my hon. Friend. The Government are not refusing to extradite them; we sought to extradite them to Rwanda to face justice. The court took a different view and…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsThe hon. Lady makes some valid suggestions. I am obviously not the Minister for Africa or the DFID Minister, but I will write to my colleagues and ask them to write to her to…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsRwanda’s doing the right thing has meant ensuring the rule of law, separation of powers, respect for the judiciary, successful prosecutions and fair trials. Those are the same…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsThe hon. Gentleman will have heard my earlier answers. As the police progress whatever cases they have, we stand ready to support them. Subject to the complexities and the courts,…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsMy hon. Friend knows better than anybody else about the judiciary and its relationship with the Executive. I absolutely understand the importance of urgency when it comes to…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsI hope the right hon. Lady does not think that because I have upheld the rule of law about the courts, there is no urgency. I would like to see those people off our streets. I do…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsMy hon. Friend makes a good point. The Africa Minister visited Rwanda not only to remember the horrors of the genocide and to say, “You are not forgotten,” but to continue to…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsMy hon. Friend may like to reflect that some of the terrorist trials we are awaiting here in the United Kingdom have taken years. They take a long time. In cases that stretch…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsThe right hon. Gentleman knows full well that if the police require more money, for this or any other issue, they can come to the Home Office—either they internally prioritise or…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsI agree with my hon. Friend that we need to send a strong message. I do not like, any more than he does, seeing in the newspapers that people are living freely in this country…09 Apr 2019HANSARDRwandan Genocide: Alleged PerpetratorsWhile I recognise the understandable impatience of many colleagues on these particular cases, we should not lose sight of the fact that the United Kingdom, under successive…09 Apr 2019HANSARDCounter-terrorism: ResourcesThe hon. Gentleman will know that when police forces come under pressure—such as when they respond to a terrorist incident, to an incident such as Salisbury or, indeed, as in my…01 Apr 2019HANSARDCounter-terrorism: ResourcesI add my good wishes to my hon. Friend and wish her all the best for the future. Our security and intelligence agencies are currently conducting more than 700 live investigations,…01 Apr 2019HANSARDCounter-terrorism: ResourcesI read with interest the article and the letters sent by the former Chief of the Defence Staff and Secret Intelligence Service—in fact, I served with the former Chief of the…01 Apr 2019HANSARDCounter-terrorism: ResourcesI am afraid that is simply not the case. I speak regularly to all the leaders of the regional counter-terrorism response and the serious organised crime response. The part of…01 Apr 2019HANSARD Far-right Violence and Online ExtremismLast year, when the police and intelligence services came to ask for more, we gave them £161 million more. We made sure that we found the funding, year on year, as the threat…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Far-right Violence and Online ExtremismIn the last two years, we have worked with the Ministry of Justice to seek, where appropriate, segregation away from vulnerable people. We have redoubled our efforts on taking the…18 Mar 2019