Written evidence to be reported to the House
Counter-Terrorism Bill
4:00 pm
Ben Wallace (Shadow Minister, Scotland; Lancaster and Wyre, Conservative)
If the Bill were passed and you were in a situation where you had a post-charge questioning facility, would you be more likely to allow a charge against a suspect to go ahead, given that you had the new power? This is going slightly into the pre-trial detention issue, but you could lay a charge. I suppose that the threshold would not be as high with the new power.