It is my job to be helpful today, Mr. Deputy Speaker. One of the reasons, of course, is that people are not under surveillance 24 hours a day, because—the Minister cannot criticise the courts, but let me criticise them—when we wanted 24-hour surveillance to stop them absconding, the courts said that we could not have that and that people had to have at least eight or 10 hours without surveillance. They had to have a "shift" as a suspected terrorist, and not unsurprisingly, they absconded.
Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Reid of Cardowan
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 March 2009.
It occurred during Debate on Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism.
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