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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 6 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.


Treatment of Detainees

Statement on the intelligence services and allegations about the treatment of detainees.


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
513 c175-90 
Session
2010-12
Department
Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Bernard Jenkin | 513 c186 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Prime Minister for his excellent statement, which I am sure will be greeted with some ...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 513 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the statement by the Prime Minister and pay tribute to the gallant, dangerous and la...
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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c186 (Link to this contribution) The intelligence services do welcome the statement today; obviously I have worked closely with them ...
Valerie Vaz | 513 c186 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister know how many civil cases there are, and what the position would be if claim...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c187 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the inquiry can follow the evidence wherever it leads—but let me be clear that it ...
Tom Brake | 513 c187 (Link to this contribution) If the inquiry team believes that, for the sake of the credibility of the inquiry, intelligence mate...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington will have heard what the h...
Geoffrey Robinson | 513 c187 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister aware, from the general tenor of the questions this afternoon, that his statem...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c187 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good question. The answer is that if it is safe to do so, yes of course. This is not ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I am very keen on recommendations of the Home Affairs Committee. Another of its excellent recommenda...
Keith Vaz | 513 c184 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the establishment of this inquiry and the appointment of the right hon. and learned Member...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c184 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right that the previous ISC findings will be enormously helpful to the i...
Lord Beith | 513 c184 (Link to this contribution) Will the previous findings of the Intelligence and Security Committee on all these matters be, partl...
Ben Wallace | 513 c185 (Link to this contribution) The gathering of intelligence is not the same as the gathering of evidence: sometimes intelligence i...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c185 (Link to this contribution) I have only been doing this job for a few weeks, and I am very happy to look at that issue. I know t...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 513 c185 (Link to this contribution) Holding the Executive to account is supposed to be the role of Parliament, not of judges or independ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c185 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is completely right. We need a robust and hard-nosed defence of our liberty, wh...
Lord Redwood | 513 c185 (Link to this contribution) I strongly welcome the Prime Minister's approach. Does he agree that recent years have shown that ta...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can confirm that the inquiry will be able to look at all those issues, including rendition, e...
George Howarth | 513 c183 (Link to this contribution) As a former member of the Intelligence and Security Committee, I welcome the Prime Minister's statem...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c183 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. All the published guidance in the world cannot de...
David Davis | 513 c183 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Prime Minister on coming to such a fast decision on this important issue and I support...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c183 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for those points and for his support on this issue. It was important to...
David Winnick | 513 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 7/7, no one in this House is likely for one moment to underes...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c184 (Link to this contribution) There is no suggestion that British agents, officials or security service personnel were in any way ...
Hazel Blears | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and in particular his support for, and reaffirmation of, th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady makes an extremely good point, and all right hon. and hon. Members can play thei...
Lord Tyrie | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Prime Minister's statement. It was courageous and very thoughtful, and the inqu...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 513 c181 (Link to this contribution) Anyone who has been a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee would want to join in the tr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c181 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for the way he puts that. Public confidence i...
Baroness Harman | 513 c178-80 (Link to this contribution) May I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to the Royal Marine who died on Thursday, the soldie...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her response and questions? She is right to pay trib...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend served on that Committee and knows its work extremely well. To answer his questions, ...
Mike Gapes | 513 c181 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister referred to his hope that the inquiry could be established by the end of the year...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c181 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that what would be naive is to try to mediate in public, which h...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c175-8 (Link to this contribution) Statement. I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in paying tribute to the Royal Marine...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c190 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it is not. We have spent some time looking at this issue, trying to find the right way t...
Speaker | 513 c190 (Link to this contribution) I can see that the House is hungry.
Jane Ellison | 513 c188 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. It will be even more warmly welcomed by Mrs Zi...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c188 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very good point on behalf of her constituents. As I said in my statement, ther...
Denis MacShane | 513 c188 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister and wish him well with the inquiry. I think that it is the fifth t...
Chris Leslie | 513 c188 (Link to this contribution) I think that many hon. Members on both sides of the House will understand the approach to mediation ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c188 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman and I would probably agree on the need to confront and defeat those who put...
Pete Wishart | 513 c189 (Link to this contribution) I, too, very much welcome the statement, and I find it extraordinary that, after the Labour years, a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that this is a difficult process. Nobody wants to pay compensatio...
Speaker | 513 c190 (Link to this contribution) Last, but certainly not least, I call Mr. Mark Durkan.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c189 (Link to this contribution) It will be a matter for the inquiry to decide who it wants to see as witnesses, and it will be able ...
Mark Durkan | 513 c190 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for acknowledging dimensions of this issue that the previous Government e...
Richard Ottaway | 513 c182 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and in particular the warm and justified support that h...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c186 (Link to this contribution) There are about a dozen cases, as I understand it. Obviously it will be better if the mediation is s...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 513 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has experience of these issues and thinks about them a lot. All I would s...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Compensation Courts Detainees Civil proceedings Inquiries Intelligence services Official secrets Terrorism Torture Rendition Guantanamo Bay
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