HC Deb 07 August 1972 vol 842 c291W
76. Sir F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether, in order to prevent Irish Republican Army gunmen hitherto operating from the former no-go areas in Ulster maintaining their unlawful activities from sanctuaries across the border, he will now institute more stringent frontier controls, including the need to produce documents of identity whenever so required.

Mr. Channon

Methods of controlling the border are kept under constant review, but although the introduction of special identity documents might seriously affect the ordinary traveller, it is considered that it would do little to reduce terrorist activity.