HC Deb 01 November 1990 vol 178 c779W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newport, West,Official Report, 22 October, column 55, he will set out the reasons why his Department decided to respond to the request to participate in the "Panorama" programme on Iraq by supplying written replies.

Mr. Sainsbury

[holding answer 29 October 1990]: The terms of the agreement eventually reached with "Panorama" on the participation of my Department in the programme on Iraq were that the programme would provide written questions to which my Department would supply written answers. Some of the answers were used in the programme.