To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when she intends to publish Sir Louis Blom-Cooper's Fifth Annual report as Independent Commissioner for the Holding Centres. [37070]

I have today arranged for copies of Sir. Louis Blom-Cooper's Annual Report for 1997 to be placed in the Library.I am grateful to the Commissioner and his Deputy, Dr. Bill Norris, for their Report. I note that for the fifth successive year they have found no cause for concern about the care and treatment of detainees held in the custody of uniformed officers of the RUC.I shall study carefully the recommendations which Sir Louis Blom-Cooper has made.