Abu Qatada Debate

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Department: Home Office

Abu Qatada

Lord Walney Excerpts
Thursday 19th April 2012

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. In view of the intense interest in this subject on both sides of the House, I have allowed the urgent question exchanges to run longer than is customary. I am happy to try to accommodate remaining colleagues, but I appeal now for extreme brevity.

Lord Walney Portrait John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness) (Lab/Co-op)
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May I suggest that if the Home Secretary wants to avoid being asked the same question again and again, she might answer it at the first time of asking? She has repeatedly said she is clear that the deadline was 16 April. She has not said, however, whether she was made aware that there could be uncertainty about that in the European Court. Was she made aware of that?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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The deadline was 16 April. The European Court is the only arbiter. Indeed, it is not the European Court itself, but the panel of the Grand Chamber, which is the only arbiter of the deadline issue.