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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T8. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to get the message to those across the world who gain wealth from grotesque crimes involving hideous human rights abuses and fraud that they are not welcome here is to have more unexplained wealth orders and a robust UK …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Sep 2018
Salisbury Incident

"There are three routes to sanctions, it seems to me. The first is through a collective operation with the European Union—it issues an order in Council that this Government can apply as a regulation the next day. The second is through the United Nations, which recently named, for example, Burmese …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Jul 2018
Amesbury Incident

"We can be sure that this incident will be used by Russian state misinformation campaigns to try further to obfuscate what happened in March. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is vital that we counter that through a steady drumbeat of telling the truth about what happened in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Saddleworth Moor and Tameside: Ongoing Fire

"Unmanaged moorland will often have heather growing to waist height. In circumstances such as this, that makes a tinder box of the moors. When I was at DEFRA, I was in receipt of a lot of appeals from the Moorland Association and others saying, “The wetter the better for moorland.” …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report

"We all bring prejudices into this place. The greatest prejudice that perhaps we all share is one of revulsion at the idea of child sexual exploitation, but when it affects an individual we know or revere, our prejudice is to immediately assume they are innocent. That was the case, in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report

"As my right hon. Friend’s grandfather might have said, who was in charge of the clattering train? But it is not just about famous and well-known people. What about the teacher, the carer, the social worker, the fireman who are treated in this way? Blame lies not just with the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report

"The Minister has rightly talked about maintaining the right balance, and he is making a powerful speech. However, if a member of a team going to search an individual’s house knows that what they are being asked to do is intrinsically wrong, what mechanisms exist in the police? I am …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report

"Lord Dear made an important interjection on this issue in the other place. He said that the loss of the Police Staff College has had an impact on decision making and leadership. Does the Minister agree, and are there plans to put something like it in its place?..."
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Written Question

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Tuesday 25th March 2014

Asked by: Lord Benyon (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what strategic priorities her Department has given to the National Wildlife Crime Unit in each of the last five years; and on what key areas her Department has instructed that unit to focus until 2016.

Answered by Norman Baker

The Home Office recognises the importance of wildlife crime, and is providing specific funding of £136,000 for the National Wildlife Crime Unit in each of the next two financial years.

The Home Office does not set specific priorities for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, other than to tackle wildlife crime. The Unit produces a tactical assessment of wildlife crime across the UK every six months. This assessment is then considered by the UK Tasking and Co-ordinating Group, which includes the Home Office and Defra.

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Tuesday 25th March 2014

Asked by: Lord Benyon (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Declaration of the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, what consideration her Department has given to ensuring that wildlife crime offences are made recordable offences.

Answered by Norman Baker

Offences relating to the illegal purchase and sale of the world's most highly endangered species are already included in the Home Office Counting Rules for police recorded crime, with the specific crime recording code of 99/3. This includes the illegal trade in iconic species such as elephants, rhinoceroses and tigers, which provided the focus to the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.