§ 36. Mr. Robert Atkinsasked the Lord Privy Seal whether his Department has made any further inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death of Miss Helen Smith in Saudi Arabia.
§ Mr. HurdI refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on 11 November to the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer).—[Vol. 992, c. 157.] The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is not an investigating authority and we have never expressed a view of our own as to how Miss Smith met her death. Inquiries into the circumstances of her death are being made by the West Yorkshire police at the request of the deputy coroner for Leeds. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has co-operated fully.