HC Deb 05 December 1988 vol 143 cc38-9W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out the reasons for the recent expulsion of Iraqi diplomats; and if he will place in the Library any copies of correspondence with the ambassador.

Mr. Waldegrave

On 18 October we requested the withdrawal of three diplomats from the Iraqi embassy and served an exclusion order on a fourth, all for activities incompatible with their status. It has been the invariable practice of successive Governments not to comment on details of security and intelligence matters.

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