Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alice Mahon (Labour), on Wednesday, 19 May 1993, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 35 members in total.

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MENWITH HILL STATION AND TELEPHONE TAPPING

That this House notes that Alan Clark the former Defence Minister claims that Ministers' phones are routinely bugged; also notes repeated accusations of bugging of prominent persons' phone calls; notes that parliamentary questions about the top secret telephone tapping Menwith Hill Station in Yorkshire have not been given substantive Answers by Ministers; further notes that the ever expanding Menwith Hill Station in Yorkshire now has 22 Radomes for monitoring satellite (telephone) communications and employs 1,760 personnel including members from all four United States Armed Services and from British GCHQ and is managed by a clandestine US organization, the National Security Agency, whose retiring Director recently described his organization as a 'magical institution' involved in a 'global enterprise' with 'core business areas'; and calls on the Government to allow a suitably constituted inspection team to be allowed to monitor Menwith Hill Station's activity and to provide more information in parliamentary questions on phone tapping.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

MENWITH HILL STATION AND TELEPHONE TAPPING (2048A1)

The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Bob Cryer (primary, Labour) and tabled on Wednesday, 19 May 1993. It has been signed by 7 members in total.

at end add 'and to allow honourable Members to inspect Menwith Hill accompanied by experts such as Duncan Campbell whose article 'Billion Dollar Phone Tap' in the New Statesman magazine of 18th July 1980 first exposed this gross intrusion into the United Kingdom telephone system.'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2048 

2048A1 

Session

1992-93

Subjects

Intelligence services Telephone tapping USA RAF Menwith Hill

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk