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Intelligence and Security Committee

I do not intend this to reflect in any way on the Committee's present or previous membership, but will my right hon. Friend comment on the Prime Minister's statement of 19 March 2008? In that statement, the Prime Minister spoke of a more "public role" for the Committee, and said that such a role should be""more akin to the practice of Select Committees".—[Official Report, 19 March 2008; Vol. 473, c. 926.]" While I realise that, as in the case of any democratic country, the bulk of the Committee's work will be done in private, has not the time come—as the Prime Minister has himself suggested—for some public hearings about the work of the security agencies?