§ Mr. Whitakerasked the Prime Minister whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT and place in the Library copies of the annual reports on Northern Ireland which are submitted by Her Majesty's Government to the Council of Europe.
§ The Prime MinisterI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the opportunity this Question gives me of correcting an inadvertent slip when replying to a supplementary question on this matter on Thursday, 13th June, when I said that "a report on Northern Ireland must be furnished each year to Strasbourg". In fact, our obligation is to keep the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe "fully informed" but does not require annual reports as such. A copy of the report we made to the Secretary-General in 1967 is in the Library.—[Vol. 766, c. 435.]