What discussions she and the Attorney-General have had with ministerial colleagues on the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights on allegations of UK complicity in torture.

I have read the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and noted what was said. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary have both given their response to the Committee's conclusions and recommendations. The Prime Minister has informed Parliament that allegations of potential criminal wrongdoing will be referred to the appropriate authorities. The Attorney-General has been clear that she will not provide a running commentary on those issues, and neither will I.

The Solicitor-General will be relieved to know that I am not going to ask about those issues. The Government's response to the report was very negative. Can she provide the House with any good reason why the previous guidelines to interrogators, suitably redacted, cannot be published, so that the House can know the guidance that the security services and interrogators used when dealing with overseas intelligence services and captives overseas?

I cannot assist the hon. Gentleman with that, I am afraid. As he knows, several cases have gone to court, brought in particular by former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that will open up to them all the powers of disclosure that are in the hands of the High Court. If the Court thinks it appropriate to disclose the documents that the hon. Gentleman seeks, I have no doubt that it will do so.