PM: Happy to look at tightening bail rules to seize passportspublished at 17:45
Eleanor Garnier
Political Correspondent
The Prime Minister has hinted that he might look at tightening up bail rules so that passports can be seized more quickly.
David Cameron has been giving evidence to the Commons Liaison Committee where he was asked about the case of Siddhartha Dhar, the main suspect in the latest propaganda video by so-called Islamic State.
Mr Cameron said he would be "very happy to look carefully" at changing the law to allow police to seize passports when giving bail.
He said that "in this individual case his passport wasn't on him [Siddhartha Dhar] when he was arrested and he was already at the limit of how long he could be detained so the police couldn't legally hold him while his passport was sought. His home address was searched and had the passport been found it could have been seized but it wasn't found."
Mr Cameron went on to say that, "determining nationality, seizing passports being done more quickly I think is a very good idea so I'll happily look at those powers."
He told the committee that he'd "just come from a meeting of the National Security Council where we're looking at deporting foreign national offenders and illegal over-stayers and again this question comes up of about why we can't determine nationality and sometimes get hold of papers faster so I think in all these areas we need to do that."