HC Deb 31 July 1998 vol 317 c681W
Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what assessment his Department has made since 1990 of the implications of information being exchanged between Libya and the biological warfare programme organised by South Africa's former apartheid regime; what were the conclusions of this assessment; when this assessment was started and finished; what action has been taken in the light of this assessment; and if he will make a statement; [53103]

(2) what assessment his Department has made of the implications of the extent and nature of the biological warfare programme organised by South Africa's former apartheid regime; what were the conclusions of this assessment; when this assessment was started and finished; what action has been taken in the light of this assessment; and if he will make a statement. [53102]

Mr. Tony Lloyd

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence, my hon Friend the Member for Warley (Mr. Spellar) today,Official Report, column 711.