§ Sir Anthony Kershaw (Stroud)On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wonder whether this would be a convenient moment to raise a matter concerning the third report of the Foreign Affairs Committee which deals with the events of 1 and 2 May 1982. Paragraph 1.6 of that report states that there is sufficient indirect evidence to support the view that the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) had supplied Committee documents to the press —The Guardian and the New Statesman.
I have received a letter from the hon. Member in which he says that he did not leak those documents to the papers concerned and nor did anyone acting for him. The Committee accepts what the hon. Member has written and I will therefore propose that the Committee makes that clear in a separate report to the House. I know that the Committee will wish me to express regrets for any embarrassment caused to the hon. Member for Linlithgow.