§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will put before the Intelligence and Security Select Committee the evidence which enabled Mrs. Stella Rimington in her Dimbleby lecture to claim that MI5 had assisted in the tracking down and issue of warrants for the culprits of the Lockerbie crime, and to reveal M15's knowledge of threats to airlines at Frankfurt in the period September to December 1988.
§ Mr. HowardI have received no such request from the Intelligence and Security Committee.
§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it was with the authority of his Department that Scotland Yard gave the Daily Express a story carried on page 1, 28 February 1989 identifying Khaled Juafor as the man who carried the bomb which destroyed Pan Am 103.
§ Mr. HowardMy Department had no involvement in the appearance of this story nor, as I understand it, was it based on any authorised briefing by a member of the Metropolitan police.
§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he authorised Mrs. Stella Rimington to make public statements about Libya and Lockerbie.
§ Mr. HowardOn the assumption that the hon. Member is referring to remarks made by Mrs. Rimington during her Dimbleby lecture in June 1994. I can confirm that I was aware of the content of the lecture before it was delivered.