HC Deb 12 January 1988 vol 125 c200W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply of 26 November 1987,Official Report, column 281, if he will give details of (a) the eight companies prosecuted since 1979 over defence contracts and (b) names of the companies still under investigation.

Mr. Sainsbury

The eight prosecutions were against individual directors or employees of defence contractors, not the companies.