Mr. O'NeillTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will now state the nature of the two telephone conversations between Walter Somers Ltd. and a Ministry of Defence metallurgical expert in 1988, referred to in his reply of 2 May 1990,Official Report, column 601.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe conversations were concerned with technical aspects of the steel tubes which Walter Somers Ltd. proposed to export to Iraq.