Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone

HC Deb 07 May 1981 vol 4 cc139-40W

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland why he permitted three Members of the Dublin Parliament to interview the then hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Sands) in prison.

Mr. Humphrey Atkins

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Dr. Mawhinney) on 30 April.—[Vol. 3, c.463.]

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland why he refused the request of the then hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Sands) to see an American lawyer, Mr. Ramsay Clark.

Mr. Humphrey Atkins

I received no such request.