Found: connections: for example, Harold Macmillan with both President Eisenhower and President Kennedy, Edward Heath

Found: to the interests of our fishing sector, with Sir Keir becoming the third Prime Minister after Edward Heath

Found: The British governments of Edward Heath (1973), David Cameron (2014), Gordon Brown (2009), Tony Blair

Found: Sir Edward Heath 4R 1998–9924 Mar 1999Retaining an interest removed from the Register.

Found: possible alternative options and priorities under the “pressures of the day-to-day problems” 1971 Edward Heath

Found: to institutionalise such practices, including the Central Policy Review Staff, set up under Edward Heath

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 11 April (HL3683), whether they intend to set a deadline for the completion of work by Home Office officials regarding a potential review by an independent lawyer of seven allegations against Sir Edward Heath left unresolved by Operation Conifer; and if not, why.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

As Lord Lexden will appreciate, and as per my previous responses, my focus is on ensuring thorough consideration of the issues raised, which will be completed in due course.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 26 March (HL3210), when they anticipate that officials will complete their work and that a decision will be taken by ministers.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

As per my response on 26^th March, I will return to the House in due course after receiving advice from officials on the considerations of whether the type of review of Operation Conifer the noble Lord and colleagues call for is necessary.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 11 March (HL Deb col 1806) when, and in what form, he will “report back” to the House about inquiries that are to be made by Home Office officials.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

I will return to the House in due course after receiving advice from officials on the considerations of whether the type of review of Operation Conifer the noble Lord calls for is necessary, possible and/or viable.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what length of time passed between the original incident or complaint, and the end of the final public inquiry or related prosecutions, in relation to (1) the Hillsborough stadium disaster, (2) the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, (3) the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash, (4) Operation Conifer, and (5) the Iraq Inquiry.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The Hillsborough stadium disaster occurred on 15 April 1989. Lord Justice Taylor published an interim report into the disaster in August 1989, and delivered his final report in January 1990. The Hillsborough Independent panel was instituted in 2009, and published its final report on 12 September 2012.

The independent inquiry into child exploitation was commissioned by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in October 2013. It covered the period between 1997 and 2013, and published its report in August 2014.

The Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash happened on 2 June 1994. The final inquiry into the crash published its findings in July 2011.

Operation Conifer, the police investigation into allegations made against the late Sir Edward Heath, began in August 2015, and published its findings in October 2017.

The Iraq Inquiry was announced in June 2009 to identify lessons that could be learned from the Iraq conflict. It considered the period between 2000 and July 2009, and published its report in July 2016.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 17 January (HL Deb col 466), whether the Home Secretary has had the opportunity to read the relevant section of Hansard for that date; and what was his response.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

Having considered the Hansard record of the debate of 17 January 2024 titled Sir Edward Heath: Operation Conifer, the Government has no plans to commission a review of either the conduct of the investigation into allegations made against Sir Edward Heath or the findings of that investigation.

The Operation Conifer investigation has already been subject to considerable external scrutiny, and its Summary Closure Report emphasises that no inference of guilt should be drawn from the fact that, had he been alive, Sir Edward Heath would have been interviewed under caution concerning seven allegations to obtain his account of events.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 17 January (HL Deb col 463), when and in what circumstances Mr Mike Veale, former chief constable for Wiltshire, agreed that the manner in which he publicised allegations against Sir Edward Heath was “inappropriate”.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

The reference to Mr Veale agreeing that the manner in which he publicised allegations against Sir Edward Heath was “inappropriate” was paraphrased from articles in The Guardian newspaper on 5 October 2017.

The Guardian reported that ‘, the chief constable, Mike Veale, finally acknowledged it a mistake that tainted the investigation by implying the presumption of guilt’ and ‘Veale apologised for an appeal for complainants to come forward being made outside Heath’s house in August 2015, which critics said would encourage false claims.’

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Found: elections . 45 Following the retirement of Speaker Boothroyd in 2000, this task fell to Sir Edward Heath

Found: Operation Conifer, the police investigation into allegations made against the late Sir Edward Heath,

Found: Edward Heath had sent his request by telegram, and the Queen’s approval was communicated by the same

Found: In 1968, a reference to the UK’s “serious economic difficulties ” was removed, while in 1973 Edward Heath

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Found: assumption that underpinned both the 1971 and 1981 Acts that the Conservative governments of Edward Heath

Found: of the principle which I enunciated. ”701 On 31 July 1995 the Secretary of State wrote to Sir Edward Heath

Found: the Republic of Cyprus in more than 50 years – the last Prime Minister to visit bilaterally was Edward Heath

Found: of the principle which I enunciated. ”701 On 31 July 1995 the Secretary of State wrote to Sir Edward Heath

Found: Thatcher, the policy was a commitment in the Conservative’s October 1974 election manifesto when Edward Heath

Found: Thatcher, the policy was a commitment in the Conservative’s October 1974 election manifesto when Edward Heath

Found: Thatcher, the policy was a commitment in the Conservative’s October 1974 election manifesto when Edward Heath