HC Deb 07 February 1972 vol 830 cc253-4W
Mr. Cant

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what further action has been taken by his Department following another breach of his Department's security, by two reporters on a journalism course, to eliminate the leak of confidential and other information from his Department.

Mr. John Davies

A full inquiry was made into this incident.

It is highly improbable that any leak of confidential or other information was involved. The men in question were detected as interlopers on arrival and challenged by the doorkeeper; managed to evade apprehension by jumping into a lift; and appear to have spent the brief period they had in the building—some ten minutes—in trying to escape from it without being caught by the Security Section which had been immediately alerted.

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