Sentences with phrase «day limit pre-charge»

Mr Brown said he would continue his strong stance on «sometimes quite controversial issues» like the 42 - day limit pre-charge detention for terror suspects or public sector pay.

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The pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects was the topic de jour, with the Conservative leader attacking Mr Brown's preferred extension to 42 days from the current 28 - day limit.

The counterterrorism bill proposes raising the maximum limit for terror suspects» pre-charge detention from the current 28 days to 42 days, but only after the home secretary has come before the Commons.

In the interim, I can announce that the Government will not be seeking to extend the order allowing the maximum 28 - day limit and, accordingly, the current order will lapse on 25 January and the maximum limit of pre-charge detention will, from that time, revert to 14 days.

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Damian Green announces reduction in pre-charge detention limit for terror suspect from 28 to 14 days

Tony McNulty's admission came as the government faces a Labour rebellion against its plans to raise the pre-charge detention limit from 28 to 42 days.

The power to hold suspects for up to 28 days came into force less than a month ago - the previous pre-charge detention limit was 14 days - and was highly controversial.

Welcoming the report, home secretary Jacqui Smith said: «I welcome the committee's view that the current pre-charge detention limit may prove inadequate in future and its recognition of the need to develop proposals to extend it beyond 28 days.

Lord Falconer said the government had failed to make the case for extending pre-charge detention and increasing the present 28 - day limit would only be justifiable after a major incident.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

• May said that she favoured pre-charge detention being limited to 14 days.