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Subversive Behaviour

Volume 180: debated on Friday 16 November 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what definition of subversive is used by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

Subversive activities are generally regarded as those which threaten national security and which are intended to overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means.