§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is the full purpose of Operation Red Shoes; how it relates to (a) Operation Lionheart and (b) any operations or strategies concerned with how refugees fleeing from a nuclear exchange would be dealt with by the military authorities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. StanleyThe exercise in question was a home defence communications exercise and had no connection with Exercise Lionheart. The detailed scenario of the exercise is classified. The responsibilities of civil and military authorities after nuclear attack are referred to in the draft Home Office consolidated circular to local authorities on emergency planning which my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary placed in the Library on 30 July 1984.