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MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News Labour MP Michael Meacher, Conservative David Davis and Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne are planning to send a letter to US ambassador Louis Susman asking for an audience to discuss the case, a spokesman for Meacher said.
[September 10, 2009, 16:16]
Tories plan to scrap National Identity Register
News Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne said that passports' biometric data should be stored only within documents, and not on a central database. Grayling answered Huhne: "My view is that we should do the minimum that we have to do.
[July 13, 2009, 11:55]
Nod, nod ... snor
Talkback Bill is definitely up their with Chris Huhne in the boredom stakes. It's amusing to see a blatant sales pitch spun as a 'visionary prediction'. What was that about people never needing more that a 32MB of RAM?
[October 19, 2007, 12:26]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News On Monday, Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne criticised the government for allowing that volume of communications data gathering. It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
Government overspends on IT by £1bn
News Liberal Democrat shadow environment secretary Chris Huhne MP said that the Government "must get a grip on its finances. Government IT projects have long been the laughing stock of the private sector, but this billion-pound overspend is beyond a...
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Home secretary reveals early ID-card demand
News This made ID-card requests "by far the most common subject matter", Smith said on Thursday, in response to a parliamentary question from Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne. Smith told Huhne that the IPS did not sort the...
[December 19, 2008, 12:21]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Smith provided the figures in response to a question from Liberal Democrats justice spokesperson Chris Huhne. In reply to another question from Huhne on the cost of cancelling the contracts, Smith said that, if they were cancelled by the government...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state and should remember that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint," said Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, in a statement. Everywhere that you look right now, the...
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
Lib Dems: Don't count on Tories over surveillance
News The party's home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne said the Tories were inconsistent. The Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases, Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference.
[September 23, 2009, 8:45]
MPs urge Johnson to halt McKinnon extradition
News MPs Michael Meacher, David Davis and Chris Huhne set up the meeting to discuss McKinnon's predicament and to push for the Londoner to face charges in the UK, rather than be extradited to the US, Meacher said in a statement on Tuesday.
[September 9, 2009, 14:24]
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News In response to a parliamentary written question from Liberal Democrats shadow home secretary Chris Huhne, home secretary Jacqui Smith said that about 50,000 ID cards will be issued between the scheme's launch for foreign nationals in November and...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News The information appears in a letter to Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne. The Home Office has listed 3M and nCipher as providers to the early stage of the National Identity Scheme. Home secretary Jacqui Smith said that, as well as...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Government under fire over ID cards
News The Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said that the "expensive and intrusive plans should be ditched now" with the money being spent on something that could fight crime and terrorism such as more police on the street.
[July 2, 2009, 9:14]
ID card scheme costs rise to £400m annually
News Huhne.Only the most profligate of governments would stick with this ridiculous plan when costs are spiralling out of control. This will produce a net benefit of £2bn to £10bn, with the midpoint, £6bn, quoted by Jacqui Smith in a speech last week...
[May 11, 2009, 12:57]
MPs call for Nasa hacker to serve UK sentence
News The early-day motion has been signed by 10 MPs from the major political parties, including Liberal Democrat shadow justice minister Chris Huhne. A cross-party coalition of MPs has called for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon to serve any putative sentence...
[November 3, 2008, 12:10]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News Members of parliament who have signed the motion include the Conservative shadow minister for justice, David Burrowes, Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable and Independent Labour MP Clare...
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency
News It is not in the interests of justice to send a British citizen with mental health problems to face decades in an American jail," said Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne in a statement.
[November 12, 2009, 17:44]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people," said Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrats shadow home secretary. The Home Office unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
Lib Dems criticise gov't over latest data losses
News The revelation on Tuesday of the loss of a personal computer from cabinet minister Hazel Blears's Salford office, coupled with two instances of civil servants leaving top-secret documents on trains from Waterloo this week, calls into question the...
[June 19, 2008, 8:05]
Lib Dems criticise 'shambolic' DNA database
News The party's shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said: "The government's policy is both shambolic and grotesquely unfair. Nobody who committed a crime before 2001 and who has evaded arrest since then will have their records on the computer, so many...
[December 4, 2008, 6:30]
