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Mr. Dalyell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to amend the Official Secrets Act so as to provide that police officers investigating alleged breaches of the law or of police regulations shall be authorised persons for the purposes of the Act.
Mr. John Patten
We are in the course of preparing proposals for the reform of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 and are not yet in a position to announce detailed conclusions.