Written Question·Home Office·UIN 110723

Omar al-Bayoumi

Tabled: 4 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026
Named Day

Question

David Davis

ConservativeGoole and Pocklington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contact her department had with counterparts in the US on the release and ongoing surveillance of Omar al Bayoumi in 2001 and 2002.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
It is the longstanding policy of successive UK Governments not to comment routinely either on individual cases or intelligence and security matters.These questions relate to ongoing civil legal proceedings in the United States; this imposes legal and proc...

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