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British government spent £600,000 on terror suspects under house arrest | British government has spent 600,000 pounds from taxpayers' money on terrorism suspects living under effective house arrest. According to British Home Office figures,
the terror suspects have received 611,470 pounds on "living costs" that includes
household bills and telephone costs since April 2007. "The money has been spent
on accommodation, council tax, utility bills, telephone line rental, prepaid telephone
cards, phone bills and "other subsistence," the Home Office said. There are currently
13 people under control orders, controversial legal restraints on their movements
and actions that are imposed because the security services say they pose a terrorist
threat. Since the orders were introduced in 2005, a total of 44 people have had
orders imposed on them. Of those, 24 have received money for their living expenses.
That suggests that each has received an average of more than 25,000 pounds. The
Opposition has called for scrapping "costly" control orders and putting suspects
on trial. "Control orders cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. A Conservative
government would review the morally objectionable and costly control order regime
with a view to replacing it by the trial of suspects through the normal court
system," Baroness Neville-Jones, Conservative Baroness Neville-Jones said. However,
the Government says the suspects cannot be put on trial because the security services
say the information that would be used to prosecute them is too sensitive to disclose
in court. "When dealing with suspected terrorists, prosecution is, and will continue
to be, our preferred approach. Where we cannot prosecute, and the individual concerned
is a foreign national, we look to detain and then deport them. For those we cannot
either prosecute or deport, control orders are the best available disruptive tool
for managing the risk they pose," a Home Office spokesman said. |
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