§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, pursuant to the answer given to the hon. Member for Birkenhead on 17 June,Official Report, column 327, he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on the exact nature of the doubts about the reliability of police evidence which led to the dropping of drugs charges in each of the 58W cases of Mr. Alan Waite, Mr. Geoffrey Pope, Mr. Marcel Mullins, Mr. Mark Whittaker, Ms. Theresa James and Mr. Paul Brown.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggNo. The decision whether or not to prosecute in each case was an operational matter for the police.