To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what comments the International Red Cross has made on the conditions in which Iraqi detainees were held at Her Majesty's prison Pentonville; and what changes the Government are introducing as a result of representations made by the Red Cross.

The detainees initially located in Pentonville are now held in Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire in appropriate living conditions with integral sanitation. This accommodation had been identified before the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross made their visit. Communications between the ICRC and Her Majesty's Government are conducted in confidence and it is not the practice to disclose details.