§ Mr. Duncan SmithTo ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral answer to the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight), of 31 March 1999,Official Report, column 1080, on which public interest grounds under paragraph 1 section (IV) of the ministerial code the Chancellor of the Exchequer declined to give the information requested by the hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green in his question answered on 19 March 1999, Official Report, column 857. [80580]
§ The Prime Minister[holding answer 13 April 1999]: The answers which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor gave the hon. Member on 30 March 1999, Official Report, column 667, and 13 April 1999, Official Report, columns 122–23, explained that he had provided a detailed account of the position in his reply of 16 March 1999, Official Report, columns 641–42.