§ Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what day, and in what circumstances, a member of his news department telephoned an assistant editor of a provincial newspaper regarding the dispatches of Mr. Michael Leapman who had been reporting on Biafra for the Sun newspaper; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WhitlockOn or about 16th July, 1968, a member of the staff of the then Commonwealth Office News Department spoke to the writer of an article in a provincial newspaper to give him information available to the Government on the current situation in Nigeria.