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Guantanamo Bay: Detainees

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 236248, tabled on 25 March 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on (a) the transfer of detainees to the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay and (b) the closure of that detention facility.

Answered on

28 March 2019

The UK Government's long-standing position remains that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close and therefore does not support any transfers to it.

Answered by

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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