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Binyam Mohamed

My Lords, it must be a source of great comfort to this House that the noble Baroness was involved in some of the earlier decisions about information going to the appropriate UK institutions. She has already in her short time in this House demonstrated her commitment to the rule of law and to, above all else, not detaining prisoners for the wrong reasons without the right legal basis to do so. Our intelligence services have in recent years always been in the hands of individuals who very much understand the obligations and values under which they are expected to operate. Fortunately, this Minister does not have to see the several thousand pieces of intelligence that move each day, and always has a suspicion that some are of better quality than others. However, I equally agree with the noble Baroness that any breach of the third-country rule risks drying up that stream in a way that would seriously jeopardise British national interests.