§ Llew SmithTo ask the Prime Minister pursuant to his oral answer to the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) of 28 January 2004,Official Report, column 305, on the Iraq Survey Group report, when the evidence was published; where it was published; and if he will place the full interim Iraq Survey Group report in the Library. [152674]
§ The Prime MinisterThe leader of the Iraq Survey Group, Dr. David Kay, presented an unclassified summary report to the US authorities on 2 October730W 2003, copies of which are available in the Library of the House. This summary report contains numerous references to a clandestine network of laboratories in Iraq.
The full report, which war shared in confidence with other principal coalition partners, contains detailed and operationally sensitive information and is highly classified. It has been the practice of successive Governments not to give information on intelligence and security matters, under exemption 1 of Part 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.