HC Deb 07 June 1991 vol 192 c353W
Mr. Chris Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to publish the report prepared by the Red Cross on prison conditions under which the Iraqi detainees in the United Kingdom were kept during the course of the Gulf war.

Mrs. Angela Rumbold

No. The convention is that such reports are made available only to the Government of the detaining country and to the national Government of those detained, and in confidence.