HC Deb 10 July 2000 vol 353 cc392-3W
Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when Ministers in his Department were informed of the leaking of the telegram from the British Ambassador to Japan on the Government's euro policy; and if he will take steps to establish how this document was made public. [129442]

Mr. Battle

Ministers were first informed of the leak in the late afternoon of Monday 3 July. An inquiry is under way.