HC Deb 22 June 1998 vol 314 c381W
Mr. Wilshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish the names of the special advisers attached to his Department; and if he will indicate whether each of them has been positively vetted. [46063]

Mr. Robin Cook

[holding answer 16 June 1998]My Special Advisers are Mr. David Clark and Mr. Andrew Hood. Both have been security cleared to the level of "developed vetting". This term replaced the term "positive vetting" in 1994.