In 2009, the then UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, decided that the Government would produce what became known as Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service
Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees.
This exercise emerged from the concern that there was no single, publicly disclosable document that set out how UK military
personnel and intelligence officers were to proceed when engaging with foreign States
on the question of the
detention and interrogation of individuals held in foreign custody.