§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the official inquiries the Lord Advocate's Department has undertaken over the last five years indicating the dates they were initiated and the dates when findings were released to the public. [41454]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe Lord Advocate's Department has not undertaken any official inquiries in the last five years. On 14 September 1992, W. A. Nimmo Smith QC and J. D. Friel, regional procurator fiscal of north Strathclyde, were invited by the Lord Advocate to undertake an inquiry into an allegation of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in Scotland. Their report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 26 January 1993.