§ Mr. Cohenasked the Prime Minister whether she gives any formal standing instructions to MI5 as to how it should carry out its operations.
§ The Prime MinisterThe security service operates under the directive issued to its Director-General on 24 September 1952 by the then Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. The directive was published in paragraph 238 of Lord Denning's report—September 1963, Cmnd 2152.