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Northern Ireland

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord asks a quite specific and very relevant question, to which, to be honest, I do not know the answer. These decisions and agreements were made probably two, maybe three Secretaries of State ago. Everyone knows about the public document published in 2003; it has been in the Library and in public circulation. The Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill was based upon that. The decision was taken to ensure that there was no one-sided treatment, and therefore the security forces were included. At what point that occurred, I simply do not know.