HC Deb 06 March 1968 vol 760 c104W
Mr. Dalyell

asked the Secretary of State for Defence why he gave instructions that the British Broadcasting Corporation, having made formal arrangements to make an hour-long television programme of activity at the Microbiological Research Centre at Porton, should be refused permission to enter the Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton.

Mr. Mason

Permission has now been granted to the B.B.C. to go ahead with this programme.

Mr. Dalyell

asked the Secretary of State for Defence why he invoked the Quadripartite Agreement between the United States of America, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom on military security in order to prevent television cameras from entering the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton.

Mr. Mason

No such agreement was invoked.