§ Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Prime Minister whether he will state what means were taken to prevent the recommendations of the Committee on Irish Finance being officially conveyed by any Member of the Government to anyone outside the Government without his knowledge?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe answer is that, so far as I know, no means were taken.
§ Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Prime Minister whether the decision to 1528 convey or not to convey the recommendations of the Committee on Irish Finance to anyone outside the Government was communicated to every Member of the Government or only to certain of its Members?
§ The PRIME MINISTERHis Majesty's Government, and therefore all the Members of it, are responsible for the course adopted.
§ Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONWere the representatives of the Government in another place aware of the exact state of the case?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI do not know what the state of their information was. My answer was: that the Government as a whole are responsible.