Terrorism Bill

The point was made best by the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham), who said, quite rightly, that while a case for some extension had been made, there had been no attempt at all to quantify it. I have been through Mr. Hayman’s evidence in some detail. The only quantification concerns a fictional case, not actual cases that have been presented, or might have been presented, to the courts. That includes the case to which the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) referred, in which the suspect went off to Algeria having been released after two days.