Guardian Gag Enigma

Fascinating front page to this morning's Guardian, in which the paper claims that it has been barred from reporting on a mystery ministerial question to be anwered later this week. According to The Grauniad, the whos, wheres and whys cannot be reported either, and the only tid-bit of information offered is that the story somehow involves Carter-Ruck solicitors.

But surely it would be too much of a coincidence for this not to involve the Trafigura debacle, and the paper's accusations last month that Carter-Ruck attempted to supress The Guardian's reports on the alleged dumping of toxic oil waste off the coast of West Africa? And with this in mind, could the question in question perhaps be Paul Farrelly's to Jack Straw, due to be lodged tomorrow, which asks the Justice Secretary:

"what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect...
press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by...
Trafigura and Carter Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication
of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory
Coast, commissioned by Trafigura."?

I suppose we can infer from the uproar created by Carter-Ruck that the contents of the Minton Report are fairly incendiary, and that The Guardian was probably on or near the money with its exposes.

*Update* It seems Guido Fawkes and half of twitter have jumped to similar conclusions - so much for Carter-Ruck's cover-up! Its also worth noting that the part of Farrelly's question that I ommitted in my original post (included by Guido) relates to another investigative story The Guardian has been running on Barclay's alleged use of off-shore tax havens. I think we can all guess which paper flops through the Farrellys' letterbox each morning!

*Update 2* The gagging order has apparently been lifted by Carter-Ruck, and myself and the rest of the blogosphere pointed our fingers in the right direction. Well done us.