HC Deb 30 March 1998 vol 309 cc356-7W
Mr. Howard

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reasons he has made no representations to the Spanish Ambassador on the incident which took place on Thursday 13 March in which a Royal Gibraltar police launch was struck by a Spanish helicopter. [36782]

Mr. Doug Henderson

The British Ambassador in Madrid protested to the Director General for European and North American Affairs in the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs on 17 March over this incident. On 24 March, he handed over video and photographic evidence of dangerous flying by a Spanish coastguard helicopter during this incident.

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