Part of Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:00 pm on 11 March 2003.
Will my hon. Friend explain whether any political member of Sinn Fein or, say, the Progressive Unionist party, is automatically a political member who has not renounced violence? Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that a member of one of those parties claimed that he or she had renounced violence. What proof would my hon. Friend accept to show that that was so?