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Written Question
Operation Blue Star
Tuesday 6th December 2016

Asked by: John Nicolson (Scottish National Party - Ochil and South Perthshire)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the nature and content is of the files removed from the National Archive relating to the events of June 1984 at the Golden Temple at Amritsar.

Answered by Alan Duncan

Following concerns raised with ministers by the Sikh Federation UK (SFUK), the FCO re-examined its 1984 files from the National Archives to check whether they contained evidence to support the SFUK claims. The FCO found nothing to substantiate the SFUK concerns in these files, which have since been returned to the National Archives.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. The Foreign Secretary hosted diplomats from nine countries as well as the United Nations special envoy in London on Saturday to discuss Syria, but apparently no agreement could be reached on the delivery of aid and no future date was set for a further meeting. Will he tell us …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Feb 2016
European Affairs

"In the weeks and months to come, ahead of the referendum on membership of the European Union on 23 June, I look forward to hearing, from all parts of the House, the positive and inspiring argument for our remaining a member of the EU.

I pay tribute to the right …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Feb 2016
European Affairs

"That was certainly not the Foreign Secretary at his most sophisticated.

This debate should not be about appeasing troublesome Eurosceptics in the Tory ranks, or about establishing who the next leader of the Conservative Party will be. It is a debate about how we in these islands see ourselves, how …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"I am curious to know whether the right hon. Gentleman was as acutely aware of that bias among business leaders during the Scottish referendum campaign, when they were wheeled out repeatedly as part of “Project Fear” to hone their skills, which we will doubtless see much of in the coming …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"Since the right hon. Gentleman has raised the issue of intimidation twice, is he aware that the father of the chapel at BBC Scotland said that far from being intimidated by the protesters, the main intimidation broadcasters felt was in fact from the Better Together campaign? The father of the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"May I ask the hon. Gentleman the same question I asked earlier—although I might of course have overlooked his comments on this on billcash.com? Does he now regret the fact that the Conservative party acted as a cheerleader for bias during the Scottish independence referendum, and does he accept that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"Would the hon. Gentleman accept, however, that apparently with the sole exception of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood), there was broadcast silence from Conservative Members when there were dramatic examples of corporation bias during the Scottish referendum coverage? With all due respect, I never heard the hon. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2015
European Union Referendum Bill

"What would the adjudicator’s role be vis-à-vis the BBC Trust? Would the adjudicator have primacy over it? Would the trust’s power to make a ruling on the issue of bias be removed, or would the two compete with each other, giving perhaps contradictory rulings?..."
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