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House
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Year
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Member
Primary member
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Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Armed conflict (2)
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Publisher
Lead member
Dominic Grieve
Answering member
Jack Straw
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Urgent questions
Legislation
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Subjects
Disclosure of information; Armed conflict; Civil servants; Attorney General; Freedom of information; Exemptions; Iraq; Legal opinion; International law; Resignations; UN resolutions; WMD Intelligence Review Committee; Iraq conflict; UN Security Council; Wilmshurst, Elizabeth
Date
24 March 2005
Reference
432 c1003-6
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Solicitor General, where and in what buildings, the Written Statement made to Parliament on 17th March 2003 setting out the legal basis for the war in Iraq was prepared; and by whom.
To ask the Solicitor General, where and in what buildings, the Written Statement made to Parliament on 17th March 2003 setting out the legal basis for the war in Iraq was prepared; and by whom.
Asked by
Dominic Grieve
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Harman
(Labour)
Answering body
Solicitor General
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
25 February 2005
For answer on
1 March 2005
Answered on
1 March 2005
Mr. Cash: To ask the Solicitor-General what involvement (a) the Lord Chancellor and (b) Baroness Morgan had in
preparation of the reply to the parliamentary question tabled by the hon. Member for Stone to the Prime Minister on 11 March
2003 on the legal basis for military intervention in Iraq to which the Attorney-General referred in evidence to the Butler Inquiry
on 5 May 2004; and if she will make a statement. [218964]
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Solicitor-General where and in what buildings, the written statement made to Parliament on 17 March
2003 setting out the legal basis for the war in Iraq was prepared; and by whom. [219422]
The Solicitor-General: The Attorney-General's written answer of 17 March 2003, Official Report, column 515W, which I relayed
to the House, was drawn up in the office of the Attorney-General. Those involved were the Attorney-General and myself, two officials
in our office, three officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Christopher Greenwood QC. The draft was also discussed
with the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg. The Attorney-General was fully involved throughout the drafting process and
personally finalised and approved the answer.
No other Minister or official was involved. In particular, neither Baroness Morgan of Huyton nor Lord Falconer of Thoroton, nor any
official in the Prime Minister's office had any involvement whatever in the drafting of the answer. The Attorney-General has never
said that they did so. As the Attorney-General has always made clear, he set out in the answer his own genuinely held, independent
view that military action was lawful under the existing Security Council resolutions.
Subjects
Armed conflict; Attorney General; Iraq; Legal opinion; Written questions; Iraq conflict; Falconer of Thoroton, Lord; Morgan of Drefelin, Baroness
Date
1 March 2005
Reference
219422; 431 c1074W;431 c1070-1W
House
House of Commons