Olympics (Security) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Olympics (Security)

Pat McFadden Excerpts
Thursday 12th July 2012

(12 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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As I have explained in answer to a number of questions, plans have been put forward and changed over those years, and contingency arrangements were put in place. It was entirely right and proper for the Government to act in this appropriate and contingent manner when it became clear that the security provider contracted to LOCOG could not reassure us that it could provide the full number of personnel.

Pat McFadden Portrait Mr Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) (Lab)
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What will the Home Secretary do about terror suspect CF, who is reported to have visited the Olympic site five times and is believed by the court to have undergone terrorist training in Somalia? Does she accept that CF’s ability to be in London at all is a direct result of her legislation removing the power to relocate such suspects away from London or other parts of the country? That legislation is complacent, wrong-headed and dangerous. Will she revisit the issue on the basis that it is not the terror laws that threaten liberty but the intent of those who would seek to kill and maim innocent people?