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Terrorism: Rendition

My Lords, the Minister is to be congratulated on coming to the House so quickly and on the candour of his answers. In one of his replies he mentioned Prestwick. He may know that, when I was Lord Advocate, I was asked to use my powers to direct the police to conduct a criminal investigation into the alleged use of Prestwick and other airports in Scotland for extraordinary rendition. I declined on the basis that the test that would have allowed me to do so was not met. Nevertheless, there have been strong and persistent rumours regarding the use of airports not just in Scotland but throughout the United Kingdom for the purpose of extraordinary rendition. First, will the Minister give an assurance that all the material that has been provided by organisations such as Amnesty International and Liberty will be included in the list of flights about which the Government seek advice and answers from the United States? Secondly, does he agree that it is not just the extraordinary rendition through United Kingdom and overseas territories airports that is abhorrent, but also the use of our airports for facilitating extraordinary rendition by, for example, refuelling aircraft on their way back from rendition? Some of the allegations that have been made concern that point. Will he make it quite clear to the United States that we will not countenance that kind of facilitation?