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Defence Committee Inquiry Into Colin Wallace

EDM number 626 in 1989-90, proposed by Graham Allen on 28/02/1990.

That this House notes the inquiry by the Defence Select Committee; and urges that it call before it Mike Taylor, the security clerk in Wallace's unit, Information Policy, and also one of the technical/ printing/reprographic people, Clive Ponting, Ministry of Defence civil servant who told Channel 4 News in 1987 that he had attended meetings in 1983 with MI5 officers to discuss 'containing' the allegations of Wallace and Holroyd, David Barclay, 1985 Cabinet Office official who acknowledged, in writing, Cabinet Office receipt of Wallace file sent to the Prime Minister in 1984, Simon Routh, 1985 Private Secretary to Lord Trefgarne at the Ministry of Defence who was dealing with correspondence with Wallace, Peter Broderick, former head of Army Information Services in Northern Ireland and Wallace's erstwhile boss, Penny Brazier, maiden name Penny Sadler, security cleared secretary in HQ NI who worked with Wallace in Information Policy, who is said by Wallace to have typed some of the documents he has copies of, including Clockwork Orange 1, Maurice Tugwell, retired British Army officer, first head of Information Policy Unit and, at the time, friend of Wallace's, Gordon Shepherd, Information Policy colleague of Wallace's, Hugh Mooney, Information Research Department officer who trained Information Policy personnel and guided it through its first year, Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Graham Allen28/02/1990Nottingham NorthProposed
Alan Meale01/03/1990MansfieldSigned
Chris Mullin01/03/1990Sunderland SouthSigned
Harry Barnes01/03/1990North East DerbyshireSigned
Alice Mahon02/03/1990HalifaxSigned
Dawn Primarolo05/03/1990Bristol SouthSigned
Norman Godman05/03/1990Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Battle05/03/1990Leeds WestSigned
James Wray05/03/1990Glasgow ProvanSigned
Martin Redmond06/03/1990Don ValleySigned
Mike Watson06/03/1990Glasgow CentralSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie06/03/1990Glasgow, PollokSigned
Ron Davies06/03/1990CaerphillySigned
Terry Patchett06/03/1990Barnsley EastSigned
Andrew Smith07/03/1990Oxford EastSigned
Eric Illsley07/03/1990Barnsley CentralSigned
Terry Lewis07/03/1990WorsleySigned
Robert Litherland07/03/1990Manchester CentralSigned
Keith Bradley15/03/1990Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Roland Boyes22/03/1990Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Harry Cohen29/03/1990LeytonSigned

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