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Counter-Terrorism Bill

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jacqui Smith) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. We are today publishing further documents in relation to the forthcoming Counter-Terrorism Bill. We are publishing a letter I have sent today to the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee setting out how the Government intend to legislate on pre-charge detention of terrorist suspects; a report by Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, on the proposals for the Counter-Terrorism Bill and a paper summarising the results of the public consultation on the proposals for the Counter-Terrorism Bill. Copies of all three documents are available in the House Libraries.