§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of people(a) stopped and questioned under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for each month since January 1989, (b) the number held under an order issued by him, (c) the number who subsequently received exclusion orders and (d) the number charged with other offences.
§ Mr. WaddingtonInformation on the operation of the prevention of terrorism legislation is compiled quarterly and published in Home Office statistical bulletins. Issue 36/89 contains information up to the third quarter of 1989. The next bulletin, covering the whole of 1989, will be published shortly. Home Office statistical bulletins are held in the Library.
§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since their release from prison in October 1989, Paul Hill and Gerard Conlon have been questioned under the Prevention of Terrorism Act; and for what length of time they were held.
§ Mr. WaddingtonNo central record is kept of examinations under the Prevention of Terrorism116W (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 which last one hour or less. Neither Mr. Hill nor Mr. Conlon has been examined for more than one hour or detained under the 1989 Act.