To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the (a) history and (b) role of the Coalition Information Centre. (155112)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Bill Rammell) then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) on 9 July 2003, Official Report, columns 816-817W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will place in the Library all documents (a) sent to and (b) sent from the Coalition Information Centre between August 2002 and September 2002 on (i) the preparation and (ii) the drafting of the September 2002 Iraq dossier; (155113)

The circumstances surrounding the drafting of the Government document ‘Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction—the Assessment of the British Government’, published on 24 September 2002, were set out extensively in the evidence to the inquiry by Lord Hutton published on 28 January 2004. During his inquiry, Lord Hutton had access to all documents he wished to see.

I explained the position further in response to the hon. Member's questions on this issue during the recent debate in Westminster Hall on 13 June, Official Report, columns 293-296 WH.