To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to (a) the answer of 16 April 2007, Official Report, column 37W, on Italy: diplomatic service, and (b) evidence taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee on 17 July 2004 from former ambassador Sir Ivor Roberts, if he will now place in the Library a copy of Sir Ivor’s valedictory telegram following its circulation to about 4,000 recipients; and if he will make a statement. (152424)

As my right hon. Friend the then Foreign Secretary (Margaret Beckett) outlined in her answer to my hon. Friend on 16 April 2007, Official Report, column 37W, Sir Ivor Roberts provided advice in his valedictory telegram on a confidential basis. Placing a copy of this telegram in the Library of the House would be likely to inhibit the frank and confidential provision of advice.