Intelligence Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the guidelines issued by his Department to officers of those intelligence services which fall within his responsibilities on interviewing prisoners abroad have been (a) seen and (b) agreed by him; and if he will make a statement. (321504)

[holding answer 11 March 2010]: The draft consolidated guidance is being considered by the relevant Ministers, and as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made clear, will be published soon.