To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will order a fresh inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash of 5 June 1994 at the Mull of Kintyre. [15438]

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence and my Ministerial colleagues have been fully briefed on the conduct and findings of the RAF Inquiry. We accept, as did the previous Administration, that the Inquiry had properly concluded, on all the evidence, that the pilots had broken safety rules and in that regard had been grossly negligent.