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Intelligence Services: Detainees

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 65920, tabled on 28 February 2017

Question

Mr Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat
Orkney and Shetland
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of the recommendations set out by the Intelligence Services Commissioner in the Supplementary Report to the Annual Report of 2015, HC 458, the Government has implemented.

Answer

Sir Alan Duncan
Conservative
Rutland and Melton
Commons

Answered on

6 March 2017

​In the written statement of 15 September 2016, HCWS 157, the Prime Minister confirmed that the Government would look carefully at the Intelligence Services Commissioner's report and take steps to address the issues where he has identified shortcomings in the response at the time, drawing upon the report's recommendations. It is the long standing policy of successive Governments not to comment on the intelligence agencies and their work.

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