HC Deb 11 June 1990 vol 174 c15W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when, further to the letter of 8 May from Mr. A. H. Chapman of C3 division to the Rev. J. Gilmore, the document publicised by Granada Television was made public and by whom.

Mr. John Patten

The letter to the Rev. Gilmore contained a typographical error. The document to which it referred was a police report and not, as wrongly stated, a public report. A letter correcting the inaccuracy has been sent to the Rev. Gilmore.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has anything further to add to his Department's statement on the Birmingham pub bombings, dated 29 March, that the document publicised by Granada Television was written before the original trial.

Mr. John Patten

I understand that the document in question was in fact written in 1975 after the trial of the six men for the Birmingham pub bombings.