To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if discussions on possible questions were held between a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and (a) himself, (b) his other departmental Ministers, (c) his departmental parliamentary private secretaries, (d) his civil servants or (e) his departmental special advisers prior to his evidence sessions with the Committee in the course of its Sierra Leone inquiry. [76083]

[holding answer I1 March 1999]: No.