To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the future of the composite signals organisation station, Hawklaw.

As GCHQ management has already made clear to the staff concerned, the station will close on 12 August, although most of the staff will in fact leave on 31 July. Dismantling work is likely to continue until the end of September.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are his plans for the replacement of manned composite signals organisation stations by unmanned signal intelligence receiver installations; and if he will make a statement.

It is not our practice to comment on matters relating to the security and intelligence services.