Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 15 November 2005.
John Bercow
Conservative, Buckingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how regularly the Uzbek authorities provide the British security services with intelligence information; what assessment he has made of whether information provided by those authorities has been obtained by torture; and if he will assess the effect of that information on the maintenance of British security.
Douglas Alexander
Minister of State (Europe)
It is not the Government's policy to comment on intelligence matters.
Yes4 people think so
No6 people think not
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