Member to the answer given earlier today by my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Cabinet Office. In addition to the action against the Sunday People , legal proceedings are extant against one other newspaper, The Sunday Times , although no action has been taken since I obtained an order in December 1999 preventing the publication of certain information about the force research unit which would put lives at risk or damage national security. Information as to the amount of time spent on each court hearing is not currently available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Records of staff hours spent by MOD employees, including internal legal advisers, and their costs, or individual cases, are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Ministers are under a duty to make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements.
The list for 1999-2000 was published 28 July 2000, Official Report, column 969W. Detailed information in the form requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The documents in question were photocopies in very poor condition of what are believed to have been montages produced by the military in the mid-1970s. Relevant records are not available for this period and therefore the origins cannot be definitely ascertained. One person was arrested and two persons interviewed in relation to this discovery. However, insufficient evidence was available upon which to sustain charges.