It emerged in February that since 2000 nearly 200 republican terrorist suspects had been told that they were not being sought by the police. Alistair Lexden condemned this iniquitous arrangement at the time (see earlier parliamentary reports above). On July 17 the results of an inquiry by Lady Justice Hallett were published.
In a short exchange in the Lords following a government statement, Alistair Lexden repeated his condemnation of the scheme, criticised the government for continuing it after 2010 and asked why it had kept the Northern Ireland Executive in the dark about the scheme after responsibility for justice and security matters had been devolved to it in 2010, despite the government’s repeated statements that it would take no action itself in areas that had been devolved.
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