Member

We keep proscription under review, but if I again take the noble Lord’s amendment, it would commit us to doing what we do already, so I cannot accept it. I recognise the feeling in the House on proscription. It is a long-standing practice—including for the previous Government—that we do not comment on proscription. As ever, I am open to be challenged and for the Government to be held to account at this Dispatch Box. We will take forward additionally a whole series of recommendations from Jonathan Hall KC to develop a new state threat proscription-like power; we are looking now at how we do that. It will enhance our powers to disrupt state and state-linked organisations, but I say to the noble Lord that I cannot support the amendments that he has put forward for the very reasons that he knows and that he articulated.