CIA: Torture

Lord Bach Excerpts

Tuesday 16th December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Lord Bach (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Lord Campbell-Savours]

My Lords, I think that the Back-Benchers come first.

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[Lord Bach]

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his original Answer to this Question. Will he set out whether Her Majesty’s Government believe that the Intelligence and Security Committee has the capacity and the resources that it needs to investigate these matters?

[Lord Wallace of Saltaire]

My Lords, I already said that the Intelligence and Security Committee has taken on additional staff to cope with this inquiry. I recognise that there are some considerations as to how open the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee will be. We have to wait to see how much it will be able to publish. I think we all recognise that this is all an extremely delicate area in terms of how much one can publish. I wish I could give an assurance that the next Government, whoever they may be, will do their utmost to ensure that as much as possible is published.