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Intelligence Services: Detainees

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 113215, tabled on 15 November 2017

Question

Mr Kenneth Clarke
Conservative
Rushcliffe
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Government Departments, parliamentary committees and civil society groups the Government plans to consult on revisions to the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees.

Answer

Sir Alan Duncan
Conservative
Rutland and Melton
Commons

Answered on

20 November 2017

​The Cabinet Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence as well as the security and intelligence agencies, National Crime Agency and SO15 have been fully involved in the work to consider what changes could be made to the Consolidated Guidance. The Government will seek the views of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament on it in the context of their wider Detainee Inquiry.

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