§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will instruct the United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations to ask(a) Secretary General Kofi Annan and (b) the Executive Chairman of Unscom what information has been made available to the office of (i) the Secretary General and (ii) Unscom in respect of allegations of the United States using Unscom as a cover for signals intelligence operations in Iraq. [78155]
§ Mr. Tony LloydI refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) on 8 March 1999,Official Report, column 15 and the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow on 9 March 1999, Official Report, column 181. We are in regular touch with both the UN Secretary-General and the Executive Chairman of UNSCOM on many aspects of UNSCOM' s work.