I am pleased to tell the House that we have doubled our contribution to the response to the Crisis in East Timor to £6.

I am aware that the Foreign Secretary has spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov, but this hardly compares to the Foreign Secretary's response to the Crisis in East Timor, when he cut short his visit to Japan to attend an emergency meeting in Auckland with other Foreign Ministers to establish an international consensus for action.

I have no objection to that, but I do object to the fact that it then sold 500 of them to the Indonesian police at the height of the East Timor Crisis.

Reference has been made to a wholly British-owned company that manufactured machine guns in a second country, which ended up in Indonesia during the East Timor Crisis.

To compound the cover-up and to add insult to injury, his15 March 1976 in-depth analysis of the East Timor Crisis claimed that Britain's policy "has so far paid off handsomely.