HC Deb 12 February 1996 vol 271 c429W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Lord President of the Council, pursuant to his answer of 15 January,Official Report column 365, what factors preclude him from setting up a Select Committee on the destruction of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. [13063]

Mr. Newton

There have already been a number of investigations and inquiries including the fatal accident inquiry, the Transport Select Committee and the US presidential commission. It is difficult to see what further areas a Select Committee on the destruction of Pan Am 103 could look at without encroaching on evidence which can properly be addressed only in the context of a criminal trial of the two Libyans accused.