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Mr. Randall
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the criteria for proscribing terrorist organisations. [30373]
Mr. Straw
Section 1 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 provides that the Secretary of State may proscribe any organisation that appears to him to be concerned in, or in promoting or encouraging, terrorism occurring in the United Kingdom and connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland.