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DA Notices

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many defence advisory notices were issued in each of the last four quarters. (183871)

[holding answer 1 February 2008]: The Secretary of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (DPBAC) has written to all UK editors to amplify the general guidance on the following occasions in relation to various DA notices:

Letters

1 January to 31 March 2007

4

1 April to 30 June 2007

2

1 July to 30 September 2007

2

1 October to 31 December 2007

1

This corrects the information previously provided in my answer of 16 October 2007, Official Report, column 937W, to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) where I stated that the Secretary of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee had previously sent seven letters to all editors for 2007 up to October when he had in fact provided eight.