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This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.
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Written1347 include persons detained on 'com- pletion of a sentence of imprisonment. (4) No information is readily av - able about the average time spen in custody prior to deportation by pe ons who had not been imprisoned or a criminal offence. (5) The longest period fo which such a person in custody on 31st October 1977 had been held nder the 1971 Act awaiting depor tion was 301 days. Answers 1348 instructed to collect reports ·and in- vestigate these unidentified flying objects. Lord HARRIS of GREENWICH: The Government has no knowledge of either the radio interview to which the Question refers, or the role played by the gendarmerie in investigating unidentified flying objects. The police in t4is country have not been asked to collect reports of, or investigate, unidentified flying objects. The jurisdiction and powers of the police are normally confined to terrestrial activi- ties, but I have every confidence that should an occasion arise where there is evidence that an unidentified flying object has landed within a police area, the police force concerned will investigate it with its customary vigour. However, until there is some clear indication that the frequency of such occurrences is likely to impose a significant burden on the police, I doubt whether it would prove fruitful to issue guidance on this subject. (6) There is considera e variation in the circumstances of hose held to await deportation after s ving custodial sentences. The only inf rmation readily available relates to 4 people dis- charged from Penton 1lle prison in the first half of 1977: 1is shows that a quarter of those recommended for deportation spent ess than 21 days in custody betwee the completion of their sentence an their deportation; a half spent 43 d 'S or less; and three- quarters spent 6 days or less. (7) Unconvi ed prisoners, including those detain under the provision of the 1971 r.Act, can apply to make personal te phone calls within the United Ki gdom for the following " A STUDY OF EXMOOR " Lord NORTHFIELD asked Majesty's Government: Whether they will make a State ent on Lord Porchester's Report A tudypurposes: (a) ~ urgent domestic reasons, (b) t clear up immediate business proble s, (c) o consult a solicitor, (d to arrange bail securities, (e to contact a national repre- sen tive at an Embassy etc. (8 A request for assistance for a visit to a detainee would be considered on he same basis as for a visit to a re and prisoner. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS The Earl of CLANCARTY asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are aware that Monsieur Robert Galley, the then French Minister of Defence, in his radio interview 01~ the France-Inter radio on 21st February 1974 stated that the gendarmerie are playing a very largf part in ofi1cial investigations into unidentified flying object sightings and alle!!cd landin!!:>: and whether our poli(;e have been likewise otfLcially ,. of Exmoor. Baroness STEDMAN: As t e House was informed on 6th April la , my right honourable friends the Seer ary of State for the· Environment and t e Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and ood appointed Lord Porchester to und take a study of chan11es in the moor nd areas of the Exmoor National Pa , because they felt that the exceptional 1aracter of the moor as a national he · age and the need to balance and safeg ard the various interests concerned calle or special and immediate study. My right nourable friends are greatly indebted to ord Porchester for the fair and expe tious way in which he has conducte the Survey and prepared his report. his was published yesterday and copies re available in the Printed Paper Office T e report establishes that since 1947 the otal area of moorland in the National P k has been reduced by some 12,000 Within the Cri1ical Amenity Area
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