Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Barbara Roche (Labour), on Thursday, 25 November 1993, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 78 members in total.

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INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

That this House welcomes the fact that MI6 and GCHQ will be put on a statutory basis but is not convinced that wheeling out Sir Colin McColl at a press conference to confirm that he uses green ink in honour of MI6's eccentric founder constitutes a long overdue opening up of the security services, nor does it believe that a committee of six honourable Members and peers hand-picked by the Prime Minister to examine MI6, MI5 and GCHQ as announced in the Intelligence Services Bill [Lords] will provide the proper independent accountability of security services that all Britain's close allies have; and urges the Government to ensure that the security services are accountable to a Select Committee and through it to this House and to the people who pay for them.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

113 

Session

1993-94

Subjects

Accountability Freedom of information Intelligence services GCHQ MI6

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk