§ Mr. MackinlayTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 1 June 1998,Official Report, column 103, on awards of the Military Cross, how many United Kingdom forces were serving in Sierra Leone in the two weeks either side of the occasion in which a service man was awarded the Military Cross in 1997; and which units they served in. [44232]
§ Dr. ReidI refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire) on 18 May 1998,Official Report, column 255–57, and to my subsequent letter of 1 June 1998, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.