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Armed Forces Bill

I will be delighted to give way to my hon. Friend in a moment, but may I tell the Secretary of State that in the briefing—I am sorry to make the point again that we had no other briefing—titled ““Background to the Forthcoming Armed Forces Bill””, the House of Commons Library, to which people have rightly paid tribute, referred to the case of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment and the Intelligence Corps? The briefing said:"““The latter case has attracted particular comment as it represents the first case brought against British Service personnel under the provisions of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 and the first case against an officer for ‘negligently performing a duty’, resulting from operations in Iraq.””"