Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:33 pm on 19 November 2001.

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Photo of Fiona Mactaggart Fiona Mactaggart Labour, Slough 3:33, 19 November 2001

I thank my right hon. Friend for his patience.

Further to the question raised by the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor), I thought that, under the Bill, when a case could be brought to trial in the United Kingdom—as I would expect for a case of terrorism in Northern Ireland—the person subject to immigration control would be subject to due legal process in Britain. Can my right hon. Friend assure me that where it is possible to conduct a trial in the UK—because the evidence and the witnesses are here—we will seek to bring these criminals to trial here?