HC Deb 18 January 1994 vol 235 c459W
Mr. Alfred Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answers of 16 December 1993,Official Report, column 769, what progress there has been in obtaining a response from the Turkish authorities to the representations made by Her Majesty's Government regarding the maltreatment of Manchester United supporters by Turkish police officers and others.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

In his reply to the letter of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 2 December the Turkish ambassador reported that details of the main allegations made by Manchester United supporters have been passed to the Ministry of the Interior in Ankara for an inquiry. The ambassador has promised to let my right hon. Friend have the results of the inquiry as soon as they are known.