HC Deb 28 February 2002 vol 380 cc1524-5W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will place in the Library the minutes from formal meetings which have taken place since 11 February between the Department's Permanent Secretary and(a) the Department's Director of Communications, (b) his own special adviser, (c) the Prime Minister and (d) the Prime Minister's Director of Communications and Strategy regarding (i) the role and conduct and (ii) the resignation of (A) the Department's Director of Communications and (B) his own special adviser; and if he will make a statement. [39228]

Mr. Byers

Under Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information it is not the practice to disclose details of internal meetings or communications. I refer the hon. Member to the statement I made on Tuesday 26 February to this House and that of Sir Richard Mottram, the Permanent Secretary of my Department, made on Monday 25 February, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

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