Found: understandably greater public attention of the abuse MPs experience following the murders of Jo Cox MP and David Amess

Found: Following the murder of Sir David Amess and the review of MPs’ security that we undertook jointly with

Found: Following the murder of Sir David Amess and the review of MPs’ security that we undertook jointly with

Found: a parliamentary debate on bombing Syria, the scope expanded after the deaths of Jo Cox and David Amess

Found: ● In October 2021, Ali Harbi Ali murdered Conservative MP Sir David Amess at a constituency surgery

Found: The man who murdered David Amess MP, was also influenced by radical Islamist ideologies consumed online

Found: Consequences of Inaction Incidents like the assassination of David Amess MP and the firebombing of Mike

Found: the Chamber at the moment where we are talking about a case close to my heart— the case of Sir David Amess

Found: originally established by {former Minister} Jim Fitzpatrick MP, together with the late Sir David Amess

Found: At their most serious, the tragic murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess, are examples of the threats

Found: Willis of Knaresborough MP* ( MP* formerly Member of Parliament) (Patron during lifetime - Sir David Amess

Found: Sir David Amess and Jo Cox’s deaths come to mind, with neighbouring MPs stepping in, but is there not

Found: Sir David Amess and Jo Cox’s deaths come to mind, with neighbouring MPs stepping in, but is there not

Found: arrangements that were put in place after the murder of Jo Cox and reinforced after the murder of Sir David Amess

Found: Finance: Tackling Loss and Damage * Westminster Hall 0.25 37 59.5 (22.5) 20 July 2023 Sir David Amess

Found: The murder of David Amess occurred in a Methodist hall, but it was not an attack against the Methodist

Found: All but one are out of scope, and that leaves the murder of Sir David Amess.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the potential merits of holding a public inquiry into the murder of Sir David Amess.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is committed to learning all the lessons from the appalling attack on Sir David Amess. We have therefore published both the Prevent Learning Review on the case in the interests of maximum transparency, and tasked Lord Anderson, the interim Prevent Commissioner, with conducting a rapid review of the case.

Lord Anderson will identify whether changes are required arising from the specific handling of that case; examine improvements made to the Prevent programme since the attack and determine whether they have sufficiently strengthened the system; and identify any remaining gaps or shortcomings in the wider programme that require further improvement. This review will be published and swift action will be taken to implement the findings.

The Government does not believe that a public inquiry would unearth any information that has not already been considered by the Courts, by the Prevent Learning Review, and by the ongoing Anderson review. However, the Home Secretary has confirmed that we will scrutinise all the previous reviews that have taken place to see if there are any questions that still need to be answered or issues that still need to be addressed, and we will act as necessary if any such gaps are identified as a result of that process.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to review the strategy for Prevent in the context of (a) the Southport attacks and (b) other recent incidents.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Secretary announced the creation of a new Independent Prevent Commissioner role in a statement to the House on 17 December 2024.

The Commissioner role will help ensure Prevent is working effectively by reviewing its legislation, policies and operations and making sure it is implemented as intended.  It will also oversee and assure implementation of recommendations from reports, reviews, coronial processes, and Prevent Learning Reviews.

Lord David Anderson KC was announced as the interim Commissioner on 21 January, to allow work to begin swiftly. Lord Anderson has been asked to conduct a rapid review of the perpetrators’ Prevent history in the case of the Southport murders and the murder of Sir David Amess. He will examine improvements made to Prevent since 2021 and determine whether they have sufficiently strengthened the Prevent system, and identify any remaining gaps or shortcomings that require further improvement and assure action to address them.

An open competition to recruit the permanent Independent Prevent Commissioner was launched on 14 February.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what response they have made to Katie Amess, daughter of the late Sir David Amess MP, who has said that her father was “catastrophically failed by the Prevent programme”; and what consideration they have given to holding a full inquest into Sir David’s death.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Sir David Amess’s death was senseless and tragic, and our thoughts continue to be with his family and friends.

This government takes the safety of members of parliament extremely seriously and significant work has been taken forward since Sir David’s tragic killing. The Prevent strategy is a vital tool to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It has been significantly strengthened over the last decade, including the introduction of the Prevent and Channel Duties in 2015 and we continue to learn lessons and drive improvements to Prevent.

Any decisions on the inquest are for a coroner to decide, but we are committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure Prevent works effectively to protect us from terrorism.

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Found: Premises) Bill 2024 -2025 12 Commons Library Research Briefing, 10 October 2024 2021 • Sir David Amess

Found: • On 15 October 2021, a terrorist fatally stabbed Sir David Amess MP at his constituency surgery

Found: Sir David Amess Prevent Learning Review

Found: Speaker, next week, we will publish the Prevent Learning Review into the appalling attack on Sir David Amess

Found: The assassinations of our friends Jo Cox and Sir David Amess have affected us all.

Found: undergone significant reform in recent years, most notably following the murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess

Found: Bridge, Finsbury Park, Fishmongers’ Hall, Forbury Gardens, and the murders of MPs Jo Cox and Sir David Amess

Found: Prevent learning review: Sir David Amess attack

Found: Prevent learning review: Sir David Amess attack

Found: However, in the aftermath of the murders of Jo Cox MP and David Amess MP, this issue has received significantly

Found: Conversely, the security concerns following the murders of Jo Cox M P and Sir David Amess M P have

Found: • On 15 October 2021, a terrorist fatally stabbed Sir David Amess MP at his constituency surgery

Found: letter.1330 He said that he had tried to soften its effect by adding a handwritten note to Sir David Amess

Found: Islamist terrorism remained the main threat to the UK in 2021, with the abhorrent murder of Sir David Amess

Found: Islamist terrorism remained the main threat to the UK in 2021, with the abhorrent murder of Sir David Amess

Found: In 2021, the MP David Amess was murdered by an individual thought to be an IS sympathiser.

Found: Yn dilyn llofruddiaeth drasig Syr David Amess AS mae’r Swyddfa Gartref yn parhau i weithio gyda’r Adran

Found: 2019), HMP Whitemoor (Jan 2020), Streatham High Road (Feb 2020), Forbury Gardens (Jun 2020), Sir David Amess

Found: 2019), HMP Whitemoor (Jan 2020), Streatham High Road (Feb 2020), Forbury Gardens (Jun 2020), Sir David Amess

Found: In the UK, the most recent example is that of Sir David Amess MP, who was murdered on the 15th October

Found: At the time of writing, the last fatal domestic terrorist attack was the murder of Sir David Amess MP

Found: At the time of writing, the last fatal domestic terrorist attack was the murder of Sir David Amess

Found: • On 15 October 2021, a terrorist fatally stabbed Sir David Amess MP at his constituency surgery

Found: In 2021, the MP David Amess was murdered by an individual thought to be an IS sympathiser.

Found: when this behaviour escalates to result in the murder of Members of Parliament, most recently Sir David Amess

Found: In the UK, the most recent example is that of Sir David Amess MP , who was murdered on the 15th October

Found: In the UK, the most recent example is that of Sir David Amess MP, who was murdered on the 15th October

Found: In the UK this manifested itself with the terrible murder of Sir David Amess MP in October 2021.

Found: such as the 2017 London Bridge attack; the 2019 Fishmonger’s Hall attack; and the 2021 murder of David Amess

Found: for Reflection 34 2 11 Motion without notice 31 0 21 Remembering David Hill 1 0 06 Tribute to Sir David Amess

Found: prime-minister-led-engagement-with-the-devolved-administrations At the outset, the Prime Minister spoke about the tragic death of Sir David Amess

Found: In 2000, David Amess MP brought forward a Private Member’s Bill in the UK Parliament, which with all

<p>I do have more to say on democratic health.</p>
<p>The intention of amendment 27 is to ensure that the democracy commission encourages democratic innovation and it puts a framework in place as to how the commission should exercise its functions for the democratic health of the nation by establishing a unit within the commission that would have responsibility for co-ordinating a programme of work. It suggests some areas that could be reported on, including turnout of elections, and so on and so forth. These amendments all build practically on the conclusions of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, in addition to the excellent work on this subject by other organisations, such as the Wales Centre for Public Policy, commissioned by Government.</p>
<p>A key part of democratic health is also about ensuring that the democratic arena is secure for all candidates and representatives. My final amendment in this group, amendment 36, places a duty on the commission to monitor harassment of elected members and candidates; to establish a particular unit to do that monitoring work; and to report on the findings of that monitoring, which could feed in to a comprehensive annual report on democratic health.</p>
<p>There is no doubt, unfortunately, that another element of the crisis that we are facing is the appalling levels of threats, violence and intimidation and harassment that are targeted at politicians, particularly female politicians, and other members of oppressed groups—ethnic minority groups, for example, and LGBT people. The murders of Jo Cox and David Amess do outline the most appalling outcomes of this. But, despite the ongoing efforts to tackle this issue, the truth of the matter is that very many politicians today have to ask for police protection from day to day, and also we know that this leads to people leaving politics, particularly women, particularly those from ethnic minorities and other oppressed groups, and that is not acceptable.</p>
<p>What we're asking for through this amendment is that we do have information that provides us with that data, as a baseline, to assess the success of any interventions that we and the Government put in place in order to tackle the issue. Unless we have a monitoring unit—. And such monitoring units have now been created by other parliaments around the globe. The Dáil recently, in Ireland, have discussed this. So why can't we do that at the Welsh level in order to ensure that we do have a unit that not only monitors, but also provides advice, support, practical support, which advises people on what they can do if they do face that kind of harassment? So, there are things in the pipeline, and Counsel General will mention those. But why not bring them all together in one place in order to ensure that we do tackle a problem that has such a negative impact on our democracy? And with those few words, I will conclude for now.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Thank you, First Minister. As you will know, there have been several recent examples of politicians in Wales experiencing verbal abuse from the public, in ever-increasing voracity. As we all witnessed on the news, the Rt Hon Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, whilst attending a Cardiff University students' event, was set upon by protesters and had to be escorted into a security vehicle by no less than eight security guards. Our very own Natasha Asghar experienced similar threats and intimidation when she attended another Cardiff University event, and I am sure we have all seen the video of students hammering the door during her speech.</p>
<p>Although I have cited two examples involving Conservative politicians, this abuse is experienced cross-party and impacts us all. Sadly, it can have terrifying consequences, as we have seen with the tragic murders of Jo Cox and David Amess. I have spoken here in the Chamber in the past about how we need to be mindful of the language we use, and though we all agree that lawful protest is a fundamental right, we cannot and should not ever accept harassment and intimidation. With this in mind, and given the events I have just mentioned, what specific steps are the Welsh Government taking to ensure that politicians have adequate support and security when attending events and public engagements? Thank you.</p>

<p>I'd like to start by thanking my committee Chair, John Griffiths, for opening this debate. I am pleased to see that the Government has accepted, or accepted in principle, all the recommendations in this report. I believe strongly that we need to encourage diversity in politics, local or otherwise, whether it's gender, race, thought or socioeconomic, because it brings together everyone's individual experiences and backgrounds to collectively help their communities.</p>
<p>In my remarks today, I want to particularly focus on recommendations 12 and 13, those of bringing together key partners to combat abuse in local government politics, and pressing the UK Government to take stronger action against social media abuse. It is undoubtedly human nature for people to react strongly against Governments and their policies. We heard yesterday in this Chamber from some Members who believe that the policies of the UK Government are evil, yet we are a society that fundamentally believes and encourages free speech. But with great power comes great responsibility, and we should be mindful of how our actions and words in this Chamber are viewed by those outside, and, more importantly, what reactions our words encourage. In today's digital age, we are seeing growing numbers of people now believing that they have the right to hurl vile abuse and threats whenever they feel like it, and we must, for the future of our democracy, take action in setting the standards of how we engage with others and how we express our frustrations and concerns towards each other. It will be mirrored by those watching us.</p>
<p>Diversity is a challenge in local government. There's very little incentive to put your head above the parapet and to advocate for your community. There is a widespread lack of respect for politicians. There's very little thanks shown, and you open yourself up to huge amounts of abuse for just trying to make your community a better place to live. Who in their right mind would do such a thing?</p>
<p>I imagine everyone here has suffered abuse in one form or another. I know I have, and it usually comes from people who would ordinarily see themselves as quite rational under normal circumstances. Yet the harsh truth is that a lot of this abusive behaviour is incited by politicians themselves. Members of all political parties have to understand that, when we make derogatory and personal comments about other politicians, we are setting an example for the public to follow.</p>
<p>And this is not a new problem either. In 1948, Tory voters, as far as Aneurin Bevan was concerned, were 'lower than vermin'. There are also many recent examples as well: Angela Rayner labelling Tories as 'scum' only serves to validate the hurling of abuse by Labour supporters towards Conservatives and, in turn, validates Conservatives in hurling it back—a vicious circle. We know the situation is bad when even a bishop, such as the former Bishop of St Davids, who should be proclaiming the gospel messages of love and care for our neighbours, is fully prepared and unashamed to incite hatred towards those with differing political opinions. Verbal abuse can so easily lead to physical abuse, and this hatred eventually boils over into violence and despicable acts, as we have so sadly seen with the horrifying murders of Jo Cox and David Amess.</p>
<p>Dirprwy Lywydd, I know that I have cited only three examples, but this isn't a problem solely with Labour or the left; activists and politicians from every political party, including my own, have been guilty at some point of this, and we have to realise that this behaviour is putting people off standing. In order to encourage diversity and address abuse towards politicians, we need to be mindful of the language we use. We have to call out Members, and Members of our own parties, when they haven't set the high standards we should expect.</p>
<p>I appreciate, as mentioned in the report, the efforts made to provide training and materials to deal with harassment and abuse, but we need to do more than just accept it as a part of public life; we need to make a conscious effort to change public attitudes. The Senedd should be instrumental in helping reset the standards for how politicians at all levels are treated. It is fair and proper that we campaign, scrutinise and call out policies that we see as negative or detrimental, but when it turns to abuse, nobody wins. Thank you.</p>