HC Deb 15 October 1990 vol 177 cc717-8W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make arrangements for those classified documents which Sir John May's inquiry into the Guildford and Maguire cases deems necessary for the purposes of that inquiry, to be made available to that inquiry;

(2) if he will make arrangements so that Sir John May's inquiry into the Guildford and Maguire cases is not constrained by the convention that police reports are not customarily allowed to enter the public domain;

(3) if he will waive public interest immunity in respect of documents which Sir John May's inquiry into the Guildford and Maguire cases deems necessary for the purposes of that inquiry.

Mr. John Patten

We have no reason to believe that the present arrangements make unavailable to Sir John May the documents he needs to carry out his inquiry satisfactorily, and therefore see no need at present to change those arrangements.