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Proceeding contribution from Lord Clarke of Nottingham (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 18 January 2012. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Detainee Inquiry.


Detainee Inquiry

I am glad to hear that my hon. Friend believes that. I think that is right. The problem of letting the inquiry go ahead while the police are carrying out the investigations is obviously that one could hopelessly compromise the other. We cannot have witnesses giving evidence about events when the police are in the middle of inquiries into the self-same events. [Interruption.] Well, that was the basis upon which we started, and everybody accepted that Gibson could not start until the police investigations had finished. There are sensible reasons, as my hon. Friend says, why we are in that situation.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
538 c758 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Counter-terrorism Detainees Intelligence services Terrorism Torture USA Rendition Guantanamo Bay Libya Detainee Inquiry
Link
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