Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (Hansard, 4 March 1999)

HC Deb 04 March 1999 vol 326 c867W 867W

§ Mr. Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence to whom the Secretary of the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee is responsible. [74311]

§ Mr. George Robertson
The Secretary of the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee is responsible to the Committee as a whole; that is the Government Members and Press and Broadcasting Members alike. His accountability was included in Open Government Document No. 93/06, which was published when the old D Notices were replaced by the current Defence Advisory Notices on 1 August 1993. A copy of the OGD was placed in the House of Commons Library on 23 July 1993.