Member

This amendment asks the Government to impose a proscription order when we may not be able to share or discuss the information that we are examining, on any particular body, in a public forum. We will share information with the Intelligence and Security Committee, which we have already given commitments to following Palestine Action’s proscription. I have sat on the Intelligence and Security Committee. It conducts cross-party examination of officials in private, with Privy Council-based briefings about matters on which we have to make judgments. That is also an appropriate forum to examine this. However, we cannot give a running commentary on the proscription, and it is completely inappropriate for the Government to break with that.