§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in theOfficial Report the number of occasions in the past 10 years when public interest immunity certificates have been issued concerning matters before coroners and other courts preventing members of the armed forces and others within the remit of his Department from attending such courts, and to prevent such courts from hearing details of operations, indicating which operations were involved and how many individuals were covered by such certificates.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThere is no systematic record kept centrally of all cases in which public interest immunity is claimed in respect of the armed forces and others within the remit of the Ministry of Defence and it would not be possible to provide the information sought except at disproportionate cost.