Written question asked by David Wilshire (Conservative) on Friday, 5 March 1999, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 10 March 1999. It was answered by Robin Cook (Labour) on Wednesday, 10 March 1999 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many copies were made of the leaked Foreign Affairs Committee documents on (a) its Human Rights inquiry and (b) its European Union enlargement inquiry; and to whom they were circulated; by what means the copies of the leaked Foreign Affairs Committee documents on (a) its Human Rights inquiry and (b) its European Union enlargement inquiry were sent to him or his Department; when (a) he, (b) his ministers, (c) his officials, (d) his advisers and (e) departmental parliamentary private secretaries first had sight of the leaked Foreign Affairs Committee documents on (i) its Human Rights inquiry and (ii) its European Union enlargement inquiry; and what use he and they made of the leaked documents. - Ref to 326 c876W, 4 March 1999.

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

327 c234W; 75859;75860;75861

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Disclosure of information Civil service Human rights EU enlargement Ministers Special advisers Sierra Leone Foreign Affairs Committee Select Committee reports