§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will deposit in the Library copies of all the papers prepared for the forthcoming Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development intergovernmental meeting on privacy.
§ Mr. WaddingtonAll but two of the papers presented to the meeting remain, for the time being, internal to the OECD. I am arranging to deposit those two — a paper on freedom of information and one by the trade union advisory committee—in the Library.
§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government will press for all future meetings of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development intergovernmental meetings on privacy to be open on an observer basis to the accredited representatives of responsible and interested international bodies, including the International Organisation of Consumer Unions.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe OECD has clear rules which limit the attendance of non-governmental bodies at its meetings. The business and industry advisory committee and the trade union advisory committee are, however, regularly invited to exchange views with OECD committees, and bodies seeking direct access to committee meetings are best advised to work through BIAC or through TUAC. The meeting on privacy held in Paris on 26 and 27 June was a routine one to review the implementation in member stales of the OECD guidelines on data protection. I understand that no further meeting of the privacy group is planned for at least 18 months.