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Interrogation Cases (Settlement)

Volume 885: debated on Friday 31 January 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the eight payments now made to victims of interrogation in depth were made as a result of a court order; and how

the target figure and actual number of recruits to each of the three Services in each quarter of the last 10 years.

The actual number of recruits to each of the three Services in each quarter of the last 10 years is as follows:many were the result of settlement out of court.

All eight cases were settled prior to a court hearing. In five cases, because they had been set down for trial, procedures required the court's endorsement of the settlement by court order.