Afghanistan

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons am 2:30 pm ar 29 Mawrth 2010.

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Photo of Bob Ainsworth Bob Ainsworth The Secretary of State for Defence 2:30, 29 Mawrth 2010

We do detain people in Afghanistan. Detention is an important part of the operations that we undertake there. Our forces are threatened by people in that country, and detention is therefore necessary. We also hand people over to the Afghans, and we have a clear memorandum of understanding about when and how we do that and about the safeguards that we seek to put in place. I will do as the hon. Gentleman asks and place in the Library a copy of our policy on detention-I had intended to do that anyway. I will do it as soon as possible; if not today, then tomorrow.