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2010-01-05 | Drug Misuse (Prisons) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Paul Flynn | Lab | Is not the greatest danger for prisoners the point when they leave prison and go back to their old haunts? | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Drug Misuse (Prisons) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | Friend is correct in the sense that there are obvious dangers. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Drug Misuse (Prisons) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Steve Pound | Lab | Further to the question raised by my old sparring partner, the hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Drug Misuse (Prisons) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Steve Pound | Lab | All of them. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Drug Misuse (Prisons) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | Friend is probably right. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | We have set up a working group consisting of officials from the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice and the Electoral Commission, as well as representatives of the armed forces, to explore further improvements. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Fabricant | Con | Will he therefore join me in condemning the crass and dreadful plans of Islam4UK to demonstrate against the Afghan war in Wootton Bassett, which would give so much grief and despair to the relatives of the fallen? | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | Anything that displays anything other than the utmost sensitivity in such circumstances will, I think, be treated with repugnance by every decent person in this country-including, I should say, all those Muslims who serve so gallantly in our armed services. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Rob Marris | Lab | Friend tell me whether any special steps are being taken in relation to the Territorial Army? | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Rob Marris | Lab | There are particular issues there, with people being deployed overseas as well these days. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | There are logistical problems in some areas of deployment overseas. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | The hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | Lady well knows that the proxy vote system is available to every member of the armed services anyway, and we have taken other measures as well. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting (Service Personnel) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | Unlike the Government whom she supported, who for 18 years did nothing whatever to address the issue, we have set up a working group, including representatives of the armed services, to make sure that our armed services are able to vote. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Court Cases [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Bridget Prentice | Lab | The hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Court Cases [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Bridget Prentice | Lab | However, I say to the hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Land Registry (Croydon) [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | However, the hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | It is particularly poignant for my hon. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Kelvin Hopkins | Lab | He was not just a colleague here but also a true socialist, and, I may say, a fellow native of Leicestershire too. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Kelvin Hopkins | Lab | I miss him greatly. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | David Howarth | LibDem | It does not. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | George Howarth | Lab | Friend some robust advice? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Electoral System [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | I think that that would be anathema, and would never gain the support of the British people. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Compulsory Transfer Agreements [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | Arrangements are now in place with 35 countries for transfers without consent. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Compulsory Transfer Agreements [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | Negotiations with other countries are continuing. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Compulsory Transfer Agreements [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | We have significantly increased the number of time-expired prisoners who are deported. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Compulsory Transfer Agreements [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Alan Duncan | Con | How many foreign national prisoners who could or should be deported should not have been in the UK in the first place, but were here illegally, as a result of the Government's dysfunctional border policy? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting Age [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | Friend. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Voting Age [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Michael Wills | Lab | We have to proceed carefully. | 18 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Departmental Staff Internet Usage [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Claire Ward | Lab | The hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Departmental Staff Internet Usage [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Claire Ward | Lab | However, I will certainly make sure that the MOJ IT services find out about the company to which he refers. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Prison Population [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Madeleine Moon | Lab | Ninety per cent. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Prison Population [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | CHAIR | null | May I say to the Secretary of State that the hon. and learned Gentleman is under no obligation to do that? | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | We can do a good deal. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Ben Wallace | Con | With the ever-growing tempo of operations, more and more veterans might find themselves in custody. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Ben Wallace | Con | The Minister with responsibility for veterans, the Under-Secretary of State for Defence, the hon. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | Like many of us throughout the House, he is concerned about veterans of our armed forces ending up in custody. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | We have just completed a joint data-matching exercise with the MOD to identify the number of veterans in custody. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | of the prison population have served in the armed forces. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | That will inform our policy development and enable us to provide greater support. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Tom Levitt | Lab | I would be grateful if he could tell me that this aspiration is still at least on the table. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | I am glad that that is happening. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | That cannot, however, prevent us from saying, “This service is doing well; that one's doing less well. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Jack Straw | Lab | Why is there a difference? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Ann Cryer | Lab | We will all miss him a great deal. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Topical Questions [Oral Answers to Questions > Justice] | Maria Eagle | Lab | We have made great strides in ensuring that that is now possible. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | To ask the Foreign Secretary if he will make a statement on the situation in Yemen, including the closure of the British embassy and the position of British citizens in Yemen. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) knows, the Government have been increasingly concerned about the situation in Yemen and about the number and scale of the challenges faced by the Yemeni Government and people. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | We believe that the increasing insecurity and instability in Yemen pose a threat to the Gulf region, to the wider middle east and to the UK. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Over the past 18 months, the situation has been a growing concern in the region and to Her Majesty's Government. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Our cross-Whitehall discussions and close working with international partners led, in September 2009, to the development of a renewed UK country strategy for Yemen. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | This strategy is currently being implemented by Government Departments across Whitehall, including the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Ministry of Defence. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | It covers four areas. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The first is support for democratic political structures; the second addresses the causes of the conflict-so-called counter-radicalisation; the third relates to building the Yemeni capacity to tackle security and terrorism issues; and the fourth is directed at helping the Yemeni Government to deliver the functions of t... | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | To strengthen further the international community's support for the Government of Yemen in meeting those challenges, the Prime Minister announced on 1 January that the UK would host a high-level meeting on Yemen later this month, and that will indeed take place. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The meeting will focus on galvanising international support for Yemen's fight against terrorism and co-ordinating assistance to address the longer-term economic and social factors underlying radicalisation and extremism. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | As a symbol of the Government's long-term commitment to Yemen, DFID signed a 10-year development partnership arrangement with the Government of Yemen in August 2007. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The UK development spend is fully aligned to our Yemen strategy and to the priorities of the Yemeni Government's national reform agenda. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | We will spend about £25 million in fiscal year 2009-10; £35 million to £40 million in fiscal year 2010-11; and, dependent on progress on reform of state structures in Yemen, up to £50 million in 2011-12. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The Government of Yemen are embattled on four different but related fronts: first, the tribal rebellion in the north; secondly, separatism and separatist movements in the south; economic decline across the country, which is particularly important in the context of a near doubling of the population of Yemen that is fore... | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Urgent economic and political reforms are the only long-term solution to Yemen's problems, but continued instability distracts from the Government's short-term efforts to address these priorities. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | As a result of ongoing security concerns, the British embassy closed earlier this week on a precautionary basis for two days. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The embassy is now open and staff are back at work. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Currently, however, the public services sections of the embassy-the visa and consular sections-are closed. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | This is under regular review and I discussed the issue with our ambassador in a video conference yesterday morning. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | I should point out that it is not unusual for embassies to close during times of heightened tension. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | During 2009, the British embassy in Sana'a closed on more than a dozen occasions. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The embassy in Sana'a maintains regular contact with the British community through our wardens network and by regular factual messages to the British nationals who have registered with the embassy. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Finally, the overall threat level in Yemen has not changed. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | As we make clear in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice, the threat from terrorism in Yemen is high and remains of concern. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | We continue to recommend against all non-essential travel to the country. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | I refer the House to the Register of Members' Financial Interests and to my personal interest, as I was born in Yemen and lived there for nine years of my life. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | In welcoming the London conference, will the Foreign Secretary state precisely what additional support has been given to Yemen as a result of this recent initiative? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | Will he also confirm that all the money pledged to Yemen in London in November 2006 has been paid over? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | Can we stop referring to Yemen as a failed state? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | It has the capacity to fail if Britain, America and the nearby Arab states do not support it. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | Keith Vaz | Lab | Can we also make sure that the Foreign Secretary visits the country as soon as possible? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | First, the London meeting will not be a pledging conference, and I do not think that that is what is needed. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Friend intimated in the second part of his question, some £5 billion was pledged at the London conference in 2006. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | of it has been signed and 81 per cent. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Friend's attempt to send me to Yemen, I cannot quite promise him that just at the moment, but the Minister of State, my hon. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Friend the Member for Bury, South (Mr. Lewis), will be on a recce to Yemen next month. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | That will allow us to take forward the conclusions of the London meeting in an appropriate way. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | On behalf of the Opposition, I welcome the calling of a conference on Yemen in London on 28 January. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | I agree that Yemen is a fragile state-I think we should call it that, rather than a failed state-and that that matters to British security. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | First, in view of the closure of our embassy, is the Foreign Secretary confident that the right level of consular support can be given to British citizens and officials in Yemen in the event of further closures of the embassy, and that plans are in place to offer them protection? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Secondly, following the announcement of additional US-UK support for a special counter-terrorist police unit and for the Yemeni coastguard operation, may we express the hope that those arrangements will be conducted better than Downing street has conducted US-UK co-operation on related matters in the last 24 hours? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Specifically, will the support be purely financial, or will it involve actual assistance on the ground in the form of training? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Is this an exclusively US-UK initiative, or does it involve other countries and partners, such as Gulf nations, that may be prepared to work with us? | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Thirdly, it should be recognised that Yemen cannot be viewed solely through the prism of an al-Qaeda problem. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | The Foreign Secretary rightly referred to a mixture of issues. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Yemen's internal conflicts are fuelled by political grievances, poverty, corruption and competition over depleted natural resources, issues that require political leadership from the Yemeni Government as well as assistance from the international community. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Can the Foreign Secretary assure us that all those issues will be addressed at the conference in January, and will continue to be treated as a priority by his colleagues in DFID? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | William Hague | Con | Will he do his utmost to ensure that there is a focus on the Yemeni Government's responsibility to work towards a political settlement in the country, and that we look to the longer term as well as to the immediate problems? | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | I am confident that the right procedures are being followed in terms of consular support for British nationals. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | Gentleman will know, there is a relatively small number of them, although the Yemeni diaspora in Britain is of long standing. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | There is a proud set of Yemeni communities, including, in South Shields, the oldest in Britain. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | There is obviously some need for consular support, but the ambassador has assured me that that is being dealt with in an appropriate way. | 19 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The network of wardens that operates in many countries is there to alert us to any problems, but has not yet been notified of any. | 16 | 2,010 |
2010-01-05 | Yemen | David Miliband | Lab | The work that is taking place with the Yemeni authorities is more than paying out. | 19 | 2,010 |
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