§ Mr. Ronald Brownasked the Prime Minister if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the correspondence between himself and Lord Watkinson concerning the disclosures of information by the Undersecretary of State for Trade and Industry, to a director of Watney Mann Limited.
§ The Prime MinisterThere has been no such correspondence.
§ Mr. Ronald Brownasked the Prime Minister if he will review the practice of his Administration regarding the disclosure of commercial information given to Departments in confidence to outside persons with similar commercial interests.
§ The Prime MinisterIn my statement on 17th June I said that I had reviewed the arrangements for safeguarding confidential commercial information and that fresh instructions were being issued to all Government Departments. These arrangements are kept continuously under review in the light of experience.—[Vol. 819, c. 641–3.]