Part of Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at 6:30 pm on 25 January 1984.
If one accepts the necessity for the legislation, there can be no way in which the hon. Gentleman will always be able to discover the information which was given to the Secretary of State. It is likely that he will never be able to so discover. That is the inevitable result of operating a system which depends on information as well as evidence, as I said a short while ago.