HC Deb 14 November 1989 vol 160 cc205-6W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Chief Constable of the West Midlands listing the West Midlands police officers who visited Guildford during the pub bombings investigations.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Full records are no longer available to show the movements of west midlands police officers during the pub bombings investigations. Such records as exist do not show that any west midlands officer visited Guildford at that time.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 30 October,Official Report, columns 39–40, if he will ask the Chief Constable of Surrey how many of the nine police officers referred to are still serving.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

As the hon. Member will know from the answer given to him on 30 October, at columns39–40, most of the police records relating to the time of the Birmingham pub bombings have been destroyed. The nine police officers cannot therefore all be identified. Of the officers that have been identified, I understand that three are still serving.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 30 October,Official Report, columns 39–40, whether normal liaison arrangements included the presence of Guildford police officers at interrogations conducted by West Midlands police with terrorist suspects.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

No.