§ Mr. Buckasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish in the Official Report the membership and terms of reference of the study group on censorship which was announced to the House of Commons Defence Committee on 10 November 1982.
§ Mr. HeseltineThe committee will be chaired by General Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC, Warden of St. George's House, Windsor. The other members will be:
- Mr. John Grant (formerly deputy editor, The Times)
- Mr. John Groves, CB, OBE (ex Ministry of Defence and Central Office of Information)
- Mr. David Holmes (chief assistant to the Director-General, BBC)
- Mr. Donald Horobin (deputy editor, Independent Television News)
- Mr. Peter Hudson, CB (ex Ministry of Defence)
- Mr. Chapman Pincher (ex Beaverbrook Newspapers)
- Mr. Norman Reddaway, CBE (ex-Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
- Mr. John Thompson, CBE (director of Radio, Independent Broadcasting Authority)
- Rear-Admiral Anthony Whetstone, CB (Ministry of Defence)
The Committee's terms of reference are:
to consider, not least in the light of experience during the Falkland Islands operations, whether any new measures, including the introduction of a system of censorship, are necessary in order to protect military information immediately prior to or during the conduct of operations".