§ 54. Viscount Lambtonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish all the representations which Her Majesty's Government have received during 1966 from Federal Ministers of the Aden Protectorate.
§ Mr. PadleyNo. Federal Ministers' representations are a matter of confidence between them and Her Majesty's Government. However, the requests made to my noble Friend, Lord Beswick, in February were summarised in an Answer in the House on 7th March by my hon. Friend who was then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Since then these requests have been reformulated at the recent defence discussions in London whose outcome I described on 13th June in reply to a question from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Chigwell (Mr. Biggs-Davison).