Government Codes and Cypher School

HC Deb 31 March 1999 vol 328 cc689-90W

Mr. John D. Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the following documents, relating to the Government Codes and Cypher School's work in the Second World War, will be released to the Public Record Office:(a) "The History of Hut 8" by A. S. Mahon, (b) "Turing's Treatise on the Enigma" and (c) "The German Navy's Use of Special Intelligence" by McMahon; if these documents have been made available outside the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. [75132]

Mr. Robin Cook

I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 23 March 1999,Official Report, columns 142–43.