HC Deb 29 March 1984 vol 57 c296W
Mr. McNamara

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Metropolitan police have been or are to be called in to assist his Department in tracing the leak of the Government's intentions to expand the Territorial Army.

Mr. Stanley

No. The fact that there was to be an announcement fairly soon about our plans for expanding the Territorial Army was stated in my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton) on 13 March at columns126–27. The speculative nature of the press report being alluded to by the hon. Member does not suggest there was any premature disclosure of the actual plans announced by my right hon. Friend on 26 March.

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