Counter-Terrorism Bill
1:00 pm
Adrian Bailey (PPS (Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth, Minister of State), Ministry of Defence; West Bromwich West, Labour)
Earlier we spoke to representatives of Liberty. I quoted to them a publication in which Liberty said that there would certainly be people arrested and then discharged after 42 days, thus incurring a loss of liberty and potentially more devastating consequences for their standing in the community, their jobs and so on. When I challenged that, they stated that under the 14 to 28-day provisions, people under the process of judicial scrutiny had been arrested and then released. Are you satisfied that the proposals in this legislation will pre-empt, as far as humanly possible, any possibility of anybody being detained for 42 days and then discharged?