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All Party Parliamentary Group
Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility APPG
To urge the US Administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, to ensure the safe resettlement of those approved for release, and to ensure that due process is expedited for all the remaining prisoners.

Found: Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

Deposited Papers

Jul. 03 2008

Source Page: List of flights where the UK government has been alerted to concerns regarding rendition through the UK, it overseas territories or the Crown dependencies. 13 p.
Document: DEP2008-1793.pdf (PDF)

Found: UNSPECIFIED PRESTWICK UK 74 ANDREW TYRIE MP, APPG ON EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION N368CE 03/09/2002 GOOSE BAY

Written Question
Guantanamo Bay: Closures
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the US government on closing the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Foreign Secretary has not had recent discussions with the government of the United States of America on closing the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

The UK Government's long-standing position is that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close.

Select Committee
Bridge2Future
 WAFFU0035 - Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up (2023)

Written Evidence Nov. 08 2023

Inquiry: Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: In the early 2000’s, the chart was used by American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention

Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) We have seen people arrested without charge and without process in Guantanamo Bay, for example. - Speech Link

Select Committee
Sir Robert Buckland, and University College London

Oral Evidence Feb. 28 2024

Inquiry: The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories

Found: would lock that in, I am thinking about the example of the lease undergirding the US naval facility at Guantanamo

Select Committee
David Snoxell, and King's College London

Oral Evidence Feb. 28 2024

Inquiry: The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories

Found: would lock that in, I am thinking about the example of the lease undergirding the US naval facility at Guantanamo

Written Question
Guantanamo Bay: Detainees
Wednesday 13th July 2022

Asked by: Lord Bishop of Coventry (Bishops - Bishops)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the humanitarian resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees, including by signalling support for countries willing to receive those detainees cleared for transfer.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK Government's long-standing position remains that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close. We will continue to engage with the US Government on this issue, as we do on a range of national security issues, and in the context of our joint determination to tackle international terrorism and combat violent extremism.

Written Question
Guantanamo Bay: Closures
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Lord Bishop of Coventry (Bishops - Bishops)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representation they have made to the government of the United States of America to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK Government's long-standing position remains that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close. We will continue to engage with the US Government on this issue, as we do on a range of national security issues, and in the context of our joint determination to tackle international terrorism and combat violent extremism.

Select Committee
IPP0176 - Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences

Written Evidence Jul. 20 2022

Inquiry: Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: They even let people out at Guantanamo Bay because they were held illegally and MPs here spoke out against