Letter from the Secretary of State for
Defence to the Chairman of the Committee
Thank you for your letter of 23 April 2007 requesting
a copy of the report into the circumstances surrounding the detention
of the 15 UK personnel in the Gulf.
I am happy to share with the Foreign Affairs
Committee any element of the report which would help inform your
inquiry. However, as I said in my statement on 16 April, its main
focus will be on the details of our military posture on operations
and which must, therefore, be seen only by those with a strict
need to know. That is why I have agreed to expose the full report
only to the Defence Select Committee.
I am copying this to James Arbuthnot.
Rt Hon Des Browne MP
Secretary of State for Defence
10 May 2007
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