Written question asked by John Baron (Conservative) on Tuesday, 20 November 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 26 November 2007. It was answered by Kim Howells (Labour) on Monday, 26 November 2007 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

CIC Material

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reason material referring to the CIC, redacted from a copy of a covering letter sent by his Department to the hon. Member for Billericay on 19 July was described as sensitive.

Answer: In assessing our response to the hon. Member's request that I "confirm that Lord Hutton was made aware of”” John Williams's document, made in his letter to me of 18 June, we redacted the reference to material used by John Williams in his drafting because it was not relevant to the request and because we wished to protect the process that Williams used.However in considering our response to the hon. Member's subsequent request for the release of this information we concluded that the public interest in releasing this information outweighed that for withholding it.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 468 c214W; 167674
Session: 2007-08
Related items: CIC Material
Monday, 3 December 2007
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Iraq Weapons
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk