To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department have held meetings with the Islamic Sharia Council; and if he will make a statement. (110526)

[holding answer 22 January 2007]: Inquiries across the Department regarding meetings with the Islamic Sharia Council, have only revealed that the Muslim Adviser to the Prison Service had two meetings with the Islamic Sharia Council on 18 October 2005 at the House of Lords and 11 November 2005 at St. George’s College in Windsor.