HC Deb 29 October 1997 vol 299 cc830-1W
13. Mr. Thompson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make public the agendas, deliberations and decisions of the meetings of the Anglo-Irish conference and the activities of the Maryfield secretariat. [12419]

Mr. Paul Murphy

The Government are committed to greater openness and transparency in the workings of the Anglo-Irish agreement and this issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the conference. Statements are already issued by the two Governments recording the agendas, deliberations and decisions reached at meetings of the conference and a list of the subjects on which briefings take place in the secretariat involving officials is published quarterly.