HC Deb 08 March 1996 vol 273 c391W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he will take as a result of the finding of the Scott inquiry that the letter written to the hon. Member referred to in paragraph D4.26 concerning changes in the Government's policy on the supply of arms to Iraq was misleading. [16951]

Mrs. Clywd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he will take as a result of the finding of the Scott inquiry that the letter written to the hon. Member referred to in paragraph D4.27 concerning changes in the Government's policy on the supply of arms to Iraq was misleading. [16952]

Mr. Hain

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 22 February,Official Report, column 256, to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) and pursuant to paragraph D4.62 of the Scott report, what steps he has taken to contact the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and the hon. Members for Carmarthen (Mr. Williams), for Clwyd, South-West (Mr. Jones), for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell), for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) and for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) in respect of the findings of Sir Richard Scott that the answers given to those hon. Members were inadequate and misleading. [17871]

Mr. Hanley

We continue to take the view that the Howe guidelines were not changed. My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary does not consider that further action is necessary.

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