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Terrorism: Rendition

My Lords, I was sorry to hear the noble Lord say that this information had not come to light because of some imminent Washington Post article as far as he knew—I think that that is how he phrased it. If it comes to light that, because of a forthcoming Freedom of Information Act request or some other method, fuller information may soon emerge, will he accept that the doubts that we are hearing in this House are more legitimate than he has suggested? We know that in many cases since 2001 extraordinary rendition—certainly according to the definition given by my noble friend Lord Thomas of Gresford—has involved kidnap of nationals from one country to be taken somewhere else to extract information from them. Are the Government minded to work with the European Union to find out whether there is some way that all European airspace can be regulated in a manner to prevent that from happening when a superpower decides to pick up people? I give one brief example; I will not take too much time. Is the Minister aware of the number of people who are kidnapped from the border areas of Pakistan, handed over to American forces in Afghanistan and rendered to secret detention centres? One does not hear about those people in the media here, but they come back—if they do at all—with their lives completely damaged. Not only should the UK not be complicit in this but we should set the lead by working to ensure that all EU countries are not complicit. Does he agree?