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Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

I accept the Minister’s intervention, but comments from the Home Office such as the one that I have quoted are deeply unhelpful. If he, or another Minister, had come forward at the time and elaborated in the way that he now has and articulated the case much more clearly, perhaps that would have been acceptable. But there was a desperate feeling of complacency from the Home Office about this matter: ““Yes, okay, they’ve gone absent. It is a problem? Not really. We won’t bother identifying them. They are on a weakened form of control order.””