HC Deb 10 March 1999 vol 327 cc233-4W
Mrs. Gillan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what steps were taken by(a) special advisers, (b) Ministers, (c) officials or (d) other persons on behalf of his Department to seek to obtain (i) a draft copy and (ii) the key conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on Sierra Leone; [75887]

(2) on what date and at what time he told the Permanent Secretary that he had received (a) the leaked draft and (b) the leaked key conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on Sierra Leone; [75885]

(3) if he informed the hon. Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Ross) that he had received from him the copy of the leaked draft of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on Sierra Leone. [75886]

Mr. Robin Cook

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire) on 4 March 1999,Official Report, columns 875–76.