Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition Debate
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Catherine West
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Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition
Catherine West Excerpts(6 years, 4 months ago)
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Sir Alan Duncan
Her Majesty’s Government will respond within the 60 days to the Committee report. I do not think there is much more that I can add to that at this stage. Many years have elapsed since the statements were made in 2012 and 2013, and the question of whether anything could be added that would be of benefit to our knowledge or usefulness is increasingly in doubt as time passes.
Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)
The Intelligence and Security Committee was reluctantly forced to draw a line under its inquiry. Will the Minister tell us whether it was the Prime Minister personally who refused the Committee access to key witnesses?
Sir Alan Duncan
This goes back to the answer that I have just given to the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Andy Slaughter). The question is whether that can add much more to the fund of knowledge that the Committee has already gathered.