HC Deb 16 May 1989 vol 153 cc139-40W
Mr. Cran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether electronic surveillance devices are used by his Department or by any organisation or agency acting on its behalf; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Hurd

My hon. Friend may wish to refer to the Home Office's guidelines on the use of surveillance in police operations issued on 19 December 1984, a copy of which was placed in the Library.