HC Deb 06 July 1993 vol 228 cc93-4W
Mr. Spellar

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take to make membership of triad organisations illegal.

Mr. Maclean

None. It is not an offence in this country to belong to any association, with the exception of certain proscribed terrorist organisations. If members of triads or other organisations are individually guilty of specific offences or of conspiracy, the police and the courts can take action against them in the same way as against anyone else.