Iranian State Threats

Dan Tomlinson Excerpts
Tuesday 4th March 2025

(1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dan Tomlinson Portrait Dan Tomlinson (Chipping Barnet) (Lab)
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It is welcome that the Minister is taking such strong action to counter the threat posed by Iran on Britain’s streets, but will he explain how the process to consider a proscription-style framework to tackle the IRGC will work?

Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis
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In opposition, the now Home Secretary rightly did not think that the existing legislative architecture was necessarily appropriate. That is the challenge of terrorist entities such as al-Qaeda, and ensuring that a mechanism that might be used to proscribe a state entity will work in the same effective way. In order to seek advice, the Home Secretary has commissioned Jonathan Hall to look carefully at that. As my hon. Friend will have heard me say, Mr Hall is superbly qualified to do that work and is working at pace on it. We will have more to say about it in the near future.

Oral Answers to Questions

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Monday 21st October 2024

(5 months, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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I have met the IOPC chair to talk through the issues facing that body. The hon. Gentleman is right that we need to speed up the decision-making process. He will also recognise that there are considerable challenges in the system that we have inherited.

Dan Tomlinson Portrait Dan Tomlinson (Chipping Barnet) (Lab)
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I thank you, Mr Speaker, for making time for Back Benchers in the questions today. I rise to raise the issue of car theft in my constituency. Many hundreds of residents have had their cars stolen, and the police do not have the capacity to follow up. Next year, I am hosting a car theft summit in Chipping Barnet, and I invite the Minister to attend with me.

Diana Johnson Portrait Dame Diana Johnson
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I would be delighted to.