Mr. GarterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Eltham (Mr. Efford) of 13 May 1999,Official Report, columns 187–88, on the Macpherson report, if he will publish the report of the leak inquiry with the names of the officials and advisers who had access to the relevant papers omitted. [85054]
§ Mr. StrawNo. As I informed the House in my reply to the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler) on 8 March 1999,Official Report, column 32, it is not the practice to publish leak inquiry reports.