74 Quotes by Geoff Hoon

Obviously we have seen some excellent work by our police and security services, but that work must continue,

My concern is that if turnout continues to fall requiring people to vote in a democratic election every four or five years does not seem to me to be a major attack on people's civil liberties.

No previous home secretary was in the position to provide this information because no previous home secretary had the information available to him. We have seen a significant reduction in key crime statistics. That is an improvement. It is not sufficient. We want to see more progress.

Obviously analysis continues but I can say straight away that those pictures were not live.

I don't know the answer to your question but I will try and find out.

Full scale of requirement ... yet to be developed.

I emphasize again that this was a military request and has been considered and accepted on operational grounds after a thorough military evaluation by the chiefs of staff,

He is doing a tremendous job in very difficult conditions and he deserves and gets our complete support,

There is excellent cooperation between our two countries in that respect. It's something that obviously we want to build on,