HC Deb 05 March 2002 vol 381 cc207-8W
Mr. Ancram

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if it is his policy to ensure that British prisoners being held at Camp X-Ray be brought to face trial in the United Kingdom; and what representations to the US Administration he has made on the repatriation of British prisoners being held there. [39513]

Mr. Straw

[holding answer 4 March 2002]: We are in close touch with US Government about the British detainees in Guantanamo Bay and the legal processes to which they might be subject.

Any prosecution of the detainees in the UK would be a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Mr. Bailey

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment has been made of the(a) living and (b) physical conditions of the British detainees in Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [40697]

Mr. Bradshaw

I refer my hon. Friend to my statement in the House on 21 January and to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Anniesland (John Robertson) on 4 March 2002,Official Report, columns 69–70W.

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