To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what her policy is on the use by her Department of persons who have resigned from the SAS or SBS to carry out operations abroad; and what accountability procedures apply in such cases. (95299)

[holding answer 19 October 2006]: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a strict code of conduct governing the employment of all contractual staff. Details of the employment of contract staff are, like those applying to its full-time employees, confidential.