asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations were made by Her Majesty's Government to the Russian Government on behalf of the Jews sentenced in the Leningrad trial on the lines of the public representations made to the Spanish Government about the Basque extremists; and whether he will make a statement.

Although Her Majesty's Government had no formal locus standi in this case, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office discussed some aspects of the matter with the Soviet Ambassador on 27th December, 1970, on the instruction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.