To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will commission a review of the processes for listing and de-listing terrorist groups and individuals and for imposing sanctions, nationally and by the European Union and United Nations. [HL2434]

The processes involved in the UK proscription of terrorist organisations are reviewed by Lord Carlile as part of his annual review into the operation of the Terrorism Act 2000. In his latest report, issued in June 2008, he described the proscription processes as “generally efficient and fair”. These processes are additionally kept under internal review to ensure they remain proportionate and effective.

The domestic processes for asset freezing found in the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 are kept under review by the Treasury to ensure that these remain proportionate and effective. Part 6 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 recently strengthened these processes by making provision for rules of court to govern challenges to asset-freezing decisions, including providing for special advocates and closed hearings where the underlying information cannot be disclosed to the designated party for reasons of national security.

The UK is committed to improving current listing and delisting procedures in the EU and the UN, as well as the provision of information to designees. The UK is currently exploring a range of proposals for reform of the UN regime in particular. We will explore these proposals with our international partners in the coming months.

To ask Her Majesty's Government which organisations have been proscribed under terrorism legislation in each of the last 10 years. [HL2576]

The Terrorism Act 2000 made provision, for the first time, for the proscription of organisations concerned in international and domestic terrorism (as well as terrorism connected to the affairs of Northern Ireland). Organisations listed in Schedule 2 to that Act are proscribed. On receiving Royal Assent on 20 July 2000, 14 organisations connected to the affairs of Northern Ireland were listed in Schedule 2; these organisations were until that point proscribed under previous legislation either with effect in Northern Ireland only, or, in respect of the Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army, with effect in the whole of the UK. The organisations are:

The Irish Republican Army

Cumann na mBan

Fianna na hEireann

The Red Hand Commando

Saor Eire

The Ulster Freedom Fighters

The Ulster Volunteer Force

The Irish National Liberation Army

The Irish People’s Liberation Organisation

The Ulster Defence Association

The Loyalist Volunteer Force

The Continuity Army Council

The Orange Volunteers

The Red Hand Defenders

The Terrorism Act allows the Home Secretary to add, by order, an organisation to Schedule 2.

In 2001 the following organisations were added to Schedule 2:

Al-Qa’ida

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Al-Gama’at al-Islamiya

Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée) (GIA)

Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) (GSPC)

Babbar Khalsa

International Sikh Youth Federation

Harakat Mujahideen

Jaish e Mohammed

Lashkar e Tayyaba

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

Hizballah External Security Organisation

Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades

Palestinian Islamic Jihad—Shaqaqi

Abu Nidal Organisation

Islamic Army of Aden

Mujaheddin e Khalq

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK)

Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party—Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi) (DHKP-C)

Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi to Askatasuna) (ETA)

17 November Revolutionary Organisation (N17).

In 2002 the following organisations were added to Schedule 2:

Abu Sayyaf Group

Asbat Al-Ansar

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Jemaah Islamiyah.

No organisations were added to Schedule 2 in 2003 or 2004.

In 2005 the following organisations were added to Schedule 2:

Al Ittihad Al Islamia

Ansar Al Islam

Ansar Al Sunna

Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain

Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami

Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (Bangladesh)

Harakat-ul-Mujahideen/Alami

Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin

Islamic Jihad Union

Jamaat ul-Furquan

Jundallah

Khuddam ul-Islam

Lashkar-e Jhangvi

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan.

In 2006 the following organisations were added to Schedule 2:

Al-Ghurabaa

The Saved Sect

Baluchistan Liberation Army

Teyrebaz Azadiye Kurdistan.

In 2007 the following organisations were added to Schedule 2:

Jammat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh

Tehrik Nefaz-e Shari’at Muhammadi.

In 2008 the following changes were made to Schedule 2:

Mujaheddin e Khalq was removed from Schedule 2, and

“The military wing of Hizballah, including the Jihad Council and all units reporting to it (including the Hizballah External Security Organisation)” was substituted for the then existing entry of “Hizballah External Security Organisation”.

To ask Her Majesty's Government which of the Project ARGUS training exercises developed by the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office for night-time economy businesses, airport and railway terminals and the hotel sector will deal with a scenario involving armed and mobile terrorists employing “hit and run” or “seize and hold” tactics; and whether they will place a copy of those training exercises and materials in the Library of the House. [HL2581]

The police National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) has delivered Project ARGUS training exercises for the following sectors: high street/retail (including businesses at airports, seaports and railway terminals); the night-time economy; health; and for those involved in the built environment, specifically architects, planners and design professionals. Project Argus training materials are currently being updated to include advice for businesses on dealing with firearms attacks. More detailed advice will be incorporated in the Project Argus training materials being developed for the hotel and the education sectors. The recently published NaCTSO protective security guidance on major events (available on the NaCTSO website www.nactso.gov.uk) includes the advice for businesses on firearms attack given at Project Argus events. A copy of NaCTSO protective security publications will be placed in the Library of the House.