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Written Answers — Home Department: Terrorism (14 Nov 2005)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library the opinion he received from the Attorney General on whether the 90-day detention provisions of the Terrorism Bill are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Guantanamo Bay (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...consider applications for compensation. Will the Government consider making ex gratia payments, provided that those individuals are not charged by the police in this country for offences under the terrorism Acts? It seems to me that those individuals will live under a cloud and will be virtually unemployable.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Kashmir (30 Oct 2001)

Mr Gordon Prentice: Our eyes are fixed on Afghanistan, but the real powder keg is next door, in Kashmir. Only today, the Pakistan Government accused the Indians of state-sponsored terrorism, after 22 Kashmiris were killed and 26 properties were torched. I despair. Where will it all end? This has been happening for more than 50 years. General Musharraf has accepted an invitation to speak to the United Nations...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...of Vets for Hunting, a group that I did not know existed. He said: For 90 per cent. or more of any hunt— in this case, a fox hunt— they— the foxes— are not fleeing in terror of their lives, but rather are responding in a remarkably controlled manner to an entirely natural, albeit adverse stimulus.It is only in the short final stages of the hunt that the quarry comes...