Ambassadors' Telegrams

HC Deb 18 June 1998 vol 314 c313W

Mr. Butterfill

To ask the Prime Minister if ambassadors' telegrams to the Foreign Office are routinely copied to No. 10 Downing Street. [45861]

The Prime Minister

[holding answer 16 June 1998]FCO telegrams are distributed internally and to other Government Departments using pre-set distribution lists linked to the subject of the telegram. No. 10 appears on a number of these distribution lists.