HC Deb 16 June 1980 vol 986 cc382-3W
Mr. Christopher Price

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many employees of his Department have defected to Communist countries in each of the last 12 years; and if he will publish details in the Official Report.

Mr. Hayhoe

[pursuant to his reply, 20 May 1980, c. 152]: One private soldier defected to the German Democratic Republic in 1972 and one locally engaged civilian defected, also to the GDR, in 1979.