HC Deb 02 March 1998 vol 307 c467W
33. Mr. Randall

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the criteria for proscribing terrorist organisations. [30373]

Mr. Straw

Section 1 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 provides that the Secretary of State may proscribe any organisation that appears to him to be concerned in, or in promoting or encouraging, terrorism occurring in the United Kingdom and connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland.