PREVENTION OF TERRORISM BILL (PROGRAMME)

House of Commons, 23 February 2005.

Dominic Grieve (Conservative, Beaconsfield)

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The House may be aware that a variety of allegations and revelations have appeared today concerning the circumstances in which the Attorney-General's advice to the Government prior to the war in Iraq was made. Those include an assertion, with some supporting documentation, that the final advice that was placed in front of the Cabinet had not in fact been prepared by the Attorney-General, but by Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan. In those circumstances, and in view of the highly unusual nature of those allegations, have you received any notice from the Solicitor-General that she will come to make a statement to the House?

Alan Haselhurst (Deputy Speaker, Saffron Walden)

First, perhaps I should say that I know nothing of these things. In answer to the hon. Gentleman's specific question, however, no such request has been received to my knowledge.