§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to publish the Caddy report on incidences of contamination at Government forensic laboratories; and what estimate he has made of the number of cases affected. [5606]
§ Mr. Howard[holding answer 26 November 1996]Professor Caddy's report into the contamination of the centrifuge at the forensic explosive laboratory with RDX, a component of semtex, will be published shortly. The legal representatives of 14 people convicted of criminal offences have been advised that their cases were to be reviewedaspartofProfessorCaddy' sinquiry.