JACK Straw has been asked whether Britain is using information from alleged terrorists sent overseas by the Americans to be tortured.
The Foreign Secretary and Blackburn MP has been challenged on the issue by his Liberal Democrat shadow Menzies Campbell.
The Fife North East MP is concerned that the United States has started deporting suspects to regimes where torture is used, despite having criticised the countries for this in the past.
The Americans will only say that they are sending people to other countries with 'more robust' means of interrogation.
Now Mr Campbell has written to Mr Straw asking if Britain makes use of information gained from tortured suspects which is shared with them by the Americans.
And, he told BBC's Today programme, he has also asked what weight British secret services would give to any such information and whether they consider it to be reliable.
A Foreign Office spokesman had no immediate comment to make.
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