HC Deb 29 November 1996 vol 286 c440W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions, and for what reasons, prisoners convicted of terrorist offences in Great Britain and given temporary transfer to Northern Ireland prisons have had that transfer cancelled and been called back to prisons in England and Wales. [5955]

Miss Widdecombe

Since the introduction of revised criteria governing the transfer of prisoners between United Kingdom jurisdictions in November 1992, no prisoner convicted of a terrorist-related offence in Great Britain and temporarily transferred to a prison in Northern Ireland has had that transfer cancelled and been returned to a prison in England and Wales.